Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library has its historical curios: among them, Harvard's first character (1650), the one surviving book from John Harvard's library, and Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its "author" collections. Quite a number of books are on view. (behind glass) in the Library's lobby or in the lavish exhibition room...
...Among the films that Debrix will use to illustrate his lecture is the current French production "Devil in the Flesh." Tonight's lecture will be open to the public...
Other speakers have not yet been chosen, Edelman said, but the program committee has already picked topics for discussion. Among those decided upon are "The Welfare State" for the March 21 meeting, and "As Others See Us," set for April...
...Among new consumer and industrial gadgets last week...
There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion and discontent; but also showing through was a determination to express both personal and public dilemmas and to face them firmly. More than in recent years, fiction in 1949 leavened its cynicism with compassion. In a great deal of nonfiction, skepticism was tempered with American optimism: though happiness and order...