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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a long time. By 10 o'clock, neighbors clung to telephone poles and tree limbs, stood on ladders and clambered to rooftops to peer over a dense honeysuckle hedge into the yard. At noon, having dug out 3 ft. of dirt and a foot of quicklime, James stepped back with a sick sigh. A pair of undertakers, their pants legs rolled up, got down into the grave and lifted out a blue plastic bag. Inside was the fully clothed body of Bobby Greenlease. He had been shot once through the head, from behind...
...schools grew nevertheless, and in growing were moved to both experiment and reform. Corporal punishment was condemned in 1850-an era when most U.S. schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
Koster in one instance obviates this difficulty by placing one character in front of a gnarled tree whose splayed branches conveniently fill the excess space. Success by gimmick can only occasionally be used, otherwise it becomes obvious and annoying. This consideration would seem to proscribe the use of CinemaScope for the filming of epics. The Robe, with its Biblical sweep, is easily adopted to the requirements of the large screen. It is doubtful, though, that this medium could be used successfully with intimate boudoir comedy...
...standards of the shipping industry. As long as the public was ignoring them, they felt, why should they not at least partly ignore the public's moral prohibitions? It is no wonder, then, that the Al of L should have such trouble shaking locals off the International Longshoreman's tree, for the present union leaders appear to the workers veritable Robin Hoods...
...found the demand far bigger than it could supply. President McElroy's solution was typical. He bought 560.000 acres of pineland in Florida, set up a $35 million plant to produce cellulose from wood pulp, now has his researchers testing ways to use the part of the pine tree not used for cellulose...