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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Criticism of the Music Department should not obscure its intelligent habit of self-examination. On this and other occasions Mr. Merritt and his fellows have displayed the rarest of academic virtues: the recognition of flaws in one's own armor. If every department in the College were to do the same, weaknesses, archaicisms, and inconsistencies would be fewer than they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counterpoint | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

...William ("Noah") Greenwood completed his second ark (his first was burned by city authorities) on a prairie near Olympia, Wash., equipped the 60-foot craft with 27 swords, a suit of armor, several tomahawks, a cat and a hat which once belonged to Annie Oakley, and waited for the "world tidal wave" he expects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...once the Harvard the Appalachian Mountains -Dixon Line to reach his domicile he must also don his armor to deferent fellow students from popular and united sparagement...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...Women look as if they were hung in armor," decided Bright-Young-Briton Cecil Beaton (now a greying 43) after a good look at the New Look. "The owner's personality is lost. They look too soignée and immaculate. There's nothing new about it." Photographer-Costumer-Litterateur-Interior Decorator Beaton, who recently designed a new costume for Vivien Leigh (it took him ten minutes, he said), was in Manhattan to "tank up" against another spell of creation back home. He would, as usual, redecorate a hotel suite so that he could live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Lost & Found | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...down. Patton was ordered not to seize Falaise. . . . The real reason was Montgomery's insistence that he close the gap. He demanded-and got his way-that Patton be halted from springing the trap he had forged. . . . During that time, the bulk of the trapped German armor escaped, to fight again and kill United States and British troops on other battlefields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five-Star Legend | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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