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...apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime of the whole scene makes one wonder whether real movie comedy didn't die with the advent of the talkies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Washington wisemen pondered the abrupt petering-out of this latest advertised Battle of the Century, saw ahead only victory for the Administration, barring a sudden unpredictable shift in the weather of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Question Marks | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...necessity, the entire conception of football is changing this year at Dartmouth. The power plays and sustained drives resulting from Coach Earl Idaik's teaching of the past five autumns, will be replaced by flashy, sudden, dangerous thrusts over land and, more likely, through...

Author: By The Dartmouth, Sports Editor, and Mel Wax, S | Title: Indians to Change Offensive Gridiron Tactics This Fall | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...these closed schools clearly paid more attention than most to the kind of private instruction for troubled students which the University has recently undertaken officially. Such "legitimate" tutoring has been quite rightly taken over by the University, but consequently there is no room left for outside agencies. The sudden demise of the second cram parlor, which rather specialized in the spreading of canned information, shows that the less successful schools are already falling by the wayside. This may well be an indication that the barometer is falling around the more notorious rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN TO GO | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR BURBANK QUITS | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

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