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...visiting lecturer at a jerk water Maryland college. As the new girl in the book, she commands initial attention and then numbed disbelief. It is not just her Olympian long-windedness that is troubling, but the things she writes. She describes sex with her lover (another correspondent): " 'Appen I enjoy it (as, despite all and faute de mieux, I sometimes do), bully for me; 'appen I don't, it up wi' me knees and nightie anyroad, and to't till I'm proper ploughed and seeded." This language has nothing to do with Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Funhouse | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...small hours: "As the evening has progressed we have done nothing but enlarge the scope of our ignorance." Knowing nods greeted her, and the team decided to take a 1 a.m. pizza break. The reports were limited to five typewritten pages, but there was no restriction on appen dixes. Chicago's theorists produced eleven. All teams met the noon deadline (Dartmouth with seconds to spare), adjourned for some sleep, then returned to spartan workrooms in the business school to prepare oral defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tourney of Young Tycoons | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...ruining my business. We show them fine jewelry, and they say: 'It's wonderful, but we can't spend more than $100.'" In Paris, a salesgirl in a Rue Royale glove shop said: "Oh, les pauvres Américains I Eef zis 'appen to us, we would do avrysing een our power to disobey, even smuggling. But zee Americains are too weel deesciplined to do sings like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Les Pauvres Americains | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...more nitrate-carrying steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Detonator & Dream | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Must be sumpin' big's going to 'appen 'ere." The President also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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