Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camargo is convinced, however, that the Amazon cannot thrive on rubber alone. Farmers must live during the seven years that their rubber plantations are growing to bearing age. He believes they must devote permanently at least 40% of their land to other crops. He has already found one other successful crop: jute...
...experimental" animals of laboratories, but mostly small casual creatures (mice, canaries, cockroaches) who lead their skittery lives around his desk. He clocks their habits, weighs their motives, charts their systems of morality. He has a fine eye for a dreamy, pregnant cockroach or an honored canary grown wise with age...
...some acute and saddened critics it has seemed that De la Mare's poetry belonged to an age that is. gone for good. Wrote J. Middleton Murry last spring: "A kind of disorganization seems to have overtaken poetry. 'London Bridge has fallen down.' Perhaps De la Mare was the last man to get safely across, before the first direct hit was scored upon...
...Colloquialism, Please. All her novels are set in an English country house around the year 1900 (only one, Pastors and Masters, takes place after 1918) and all her characters, regardless of their age and education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They...
...Black. Howard Robard Hughes Jr., an only child, was born in Houston on Christmas Eve, 1905. At the age of three he showed his interest in gadgets by taking pictures with a box camera. Later he showed his inordinate persistence by practicing on the saxophone at all hours of the day & night, until he had mastered it. Young Howard and his playmate, Dudley Sharp (son of Hughes Sr.'s partner), built a wireless set, mostly out of old doorbell parts and other junk. When Howard asked for a motorcycle and was refused, he made a motor...