Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject is ghosts; the treatment is neither scary nor funny--merely heavy-handed. James Mason, as a retired businessman, and his wife, Barbara Mullen, bring their 40 years experience in the drapery business to battle with a frustrated young ghost who haunts their newly-bought country house. Local gossip whispers that an attractive girl was smothered to death there 40 years before by some avaricious caretakers who wanted her inheritance. Mason and Mullen are unimpressed until she begins to whistle in the speaking tubes and bother the help...
...Debate Council lost to Boston College last night on the subject: "Resolved, That the United States should join in an economic union with Great Britain. Harvard debaters George I. Mulhearn '51 and Richard J. Stewart '51 took the negative. Last night's loss gives the debaters a record of four wins and two defeats...
Little more than an hour before that deadline, a 30-day extension was agreed upon, subject to approval of the rank and file of the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots and the 38 companies making up the employers' group from Atlantic and Gulf ports...
...Yard, and graduated from Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson never had any doubt about which college he would attend. He entered Harvard in 1925. Since he had always been interested in music and had written his first composition at the age of 12, he majored in that subject...
...lengthy inquiry into the possibility of building substitute transmission stations, i.e., electrical apparatuses which would be worn, perhaps, on the head, through which controlled and meaningful signals could be sent electrically to the brain of a blinded man. A group of electrical contacts touching the surface of the subject's brain, says Dr. Krieg, might enable him to read. A pattern of such impulses coming through the electrodes of the apparatus might be controlled to appear as words, moving across the blind man's visual consciousness like the letters of an advertising sign...