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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, one of the best practices in point of view of drive and spark that has been seen all season. The A and B teams were driving through the C team in a protracted scrimmage with a ruthless abandon that left the subs gasping for air and pawing in the dark. The scrimmage was all from the 20-yard line, and no adding machine was present to keep the list of the scores...
...Letter to James B. Munn," Mr. Hillyer discusses the conflict within him between the poet and the academic scholar. Also there are letters to Bernard De Vote, Peyton Randolph Campbell, Queen Nefertiti, and the author's son. Only in "A Letter to Queen Nefertiti" does he abandon his pleasantly familiar tone and adopt a more racy and a more lyrical theme...
...wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos, Calif, since publication of his best-selling Of Mice and Men* (167,000 copies) Mr. Steinbeck can well afford to abandon an erstwhile $25-a-month budget which he and his tall, brunette wife Carol supplemented by fishing, not for fun, from their own launch in Monterey...
...listeners think that in advocating religion he was criticizing them, Dean Pound was quick to add that he has "never lost faith in the religious groundings of the younger generation." Urging them to hold fast to these ideas, he warned against "those fashionable philosophies of life" that would abandon religion...
Harvard social service workers, to whom much due credit flows continually, should abandon their lines of settlement houses for a moment and consider the plight of the unfortunate children in their own backyard. Not only does Harvard at present do nothing for the urchins of Allston, that part of the city of Boston which lies under the shadow of the stadium, but by her presence Harvard actually hurts them...