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Fannie Hurst's tear jerking 1933 novel about the sacrifices mothers make for their daughters spawned two popular movies separated by a quarter century of glacially-changing social attitudes - a highly regarded 1934 version that remains faithful to the book's narrative and an elaborate 1959 remake which changes certain plot details to service German-born filmmaker Douglas Sirk's heavily Baroque style of film-making.

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You see here the red roof and the gray roof, and in between them there will be a mask, which is just a blank screen, for about a quarter of a second.

So while we want to make economic profit for ourselves and our customers, we are willing to do it with a long-term view, and we like to have a wider definition of profits than just the economic profit in the next quarter.

And this one weighed 92 pounds and took two people to operate and cost a quarter of a car.

A 2010 study found that only a quarter of college graduates work in a field that relates to their degree.

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