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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think for sheer excellence in terseness of writing I have seldom read anything better than your account of Effie Crawford's pre-present and post-natal experiences. The condensation of economic, sociologic, psychologic, and physiologic into those brief paragraphs was indeed masterful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Coblentz-Wilson-Ericsson ($3). Academic study thoroughly recounting the bloody doings of the two vigilante committees that administered justice in San Francisco from 1851 to 1856, together with an account of the crime wave (1,200 murders in four years) that made them necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...plate is back and there is a sign behind saying, "There is NO charge account. Please leave the CORRECT change for EACH paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NO PENNIES, NO PAPERS," SAYS NEWSBOY TO ELEPHANTS | 12/9/1936 | See Source »

...scholars and philologists. In it, for the first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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