Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retirement brought praise for the man from the ends of the earth and deep regret at his leaving. Before his Harvard appointment he taught at Cambridge University and the University of London. With Albert Einstein he did considerable work in the mathematical field, and he is the author of "Principal Mathematica" and "The Principle of Relativity...
...Class of 1895, and began teaching Mathematics two years later at Groton School. He moved to Harvard in 1900, became a professor in 1918 after winning the Cross of the Legion of Honor in France. Now head of the department of Mathematics and periodical (average every five years) author, he is one of the best known, mathematicians in the world. After writing on the Complex Domain (1924), he does not find it hard to count his eight children...
...Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle and My America-have been written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country is a simple chronicle...
...Author Stone makes much of the contradictions in London's career-his belief in socialism and his desire for wealth, his belief in sexual freedom and his desire for a quiet home life, his enormous good nature and his periods of despondency. Author Stone also tries to trace London's talent to his father, who was, he says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate...
...Author Stone, himself a smart and self-confident young man, admires the youthful London and all his works for reasons that appear a bit superficial. As critics pointed out when Sailor on Horseback was serialized, some of its best passages are lifted from London's autobiography (John Barleycorn) with a mere transposition of pronouns from...