Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes the plan utopian is in truth nothing more than that it is a plan. It would substitute for the haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course...
The air of London music hall is no accident. She calls herself a Cockney, though she was actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten...
In Manhattan: Radio Funnyman Henry Morgan and his statuesque blonde wife Isobel agreed that they were more congenial apart.* After 20 months of marriage, she sued for separation, asked $750 a week temporary alimony. She complained that he had once faked a foreign accent, pounded on the door and yelled...
Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter'...
"The accident gave me more exercise than two weeks of sculling," Colombo stated last night, recounting his experience.