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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stress our literature is to add more courses to the college curriculum, but since no authority like Mr. De Voto flourishes in the English Department, and perhaps not one in the country whom Harvard could adopt into its colorless brood, this suggests the improbable. A similar alternative, not to be regarded as final, is to improve as much as possible the existing courses. Toward the accomplishment of this the heads of English 7 are making a definite move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STEP FORWARD | 12/12/1936 | See Source »

Next was Marshall Wayne, Olympic high diving champion 1936, and also National champion. To add humor to their exhibitions of steel nerve. Bill Lewin, self-admittedly the world's funniest water comedian, does a few turns of his own. With Art Phillips, nine years holder of the Canadian and British Empire diving titles, he does a complicated dive that is supposed to be representative of a man riding a horse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dick Degener And Marshall Wayne Practice in Harvard Pool for Boston Show Of Aquatic Skill | 12/12/1936 | See Source »

...both London and Paris was substantially covered by French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos when he announced last week: "The accord of Germany and Japan is inspired by a crusading spirit which France, like England and all countries desirous of peace, refuses to accept. France does not wish to add to the all-too-real causes for conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer's Crusade | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...name appeared last week as entrepreneur of a whole festival of Coward plays which arrived in Manhattan. Actor-Author Coward had written them, directed them, scored them for music, provided in each a part for himself and Gertrude Lawrence. In so doing he seemed in a fair way to add to his record pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Three Triples | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...again. To bore you with extended criticism of style and manner of these two fast friends would be both vain and presumptuous, and we shall politely conclude that overworked angle with: "So much has been said on both sides, and so well, that we have nothing more to add...

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

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