Word: attestations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Macfarlane is a Scotchman, 68 years old, educated in Edinburgh. He was Professor of Botany at Pennsylvania from 1893 to 1919 and stands high in his specialty. He has been studying the relation of fish to petroleum for 50 years. Scientists familiar with his work attest its authenticity...
...great deal of encouragement and assistance. Since that time his plays have been enthusiastically received and have had long runs in the theatres, while the printed editions of his works have been rapidly exhausted. The phenomenal success of "He Who Gets Slapped" and the large sales of his works, attest the keen interest and appreciation he is receiving in this country...
...does the greatest service to literature is not he who turns his back on his public but he who seeks to interest that public and at the same time to hold his standards high. That this can be done the experience of many magazine and publishing houses will attest. That it can be done in a college community which is supposedly--and I believe actually--an intelligent community, I cannot bring myself seriously to doubt...