Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line he surveyed across the mountains, rising 7,000 feet in less than 20 miles, was the boldest feat of railroad engineering undertaken up to that time...
Born in the Matto Grosso jungle, 32-year-old Author Spinelli, now a U. S. citizen, draws on his own boyhood for good jungle descriptions...
...Whether Author Gogarty is only temporarily holding himself in, or really means to start living down the legends of his past, I Follow Saint Patrick is, for him, a strangely subdued and pious piece of writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...
...Wartime profits were about 800,000,000 marks and they were given a subsidy to compensate them for the War's sudden end. No longer allowed to manufacture munitions, they turned out trucks, machinery, artificial teeth. The Krupps were not among the financial backers of the Nazis, says Author Menne, but now they are earning (at least on paper) enough money to make their Wartime profits seem like BBs beside cannon balls...
SUWANNEE RIVER-Cecile Hulse Matschat-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Best of the Rivers of America series (previous volumes: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi) Suwannee River more than lives up to its folk-song fame. (Although Stephen Foster never saw the Suwannee, a stone to his memory stands at its source.) Author Matschat describes the primitive, fantastic swamp country of Georgia and Florida, the swamp folk and their legends, like a naturalist with poetic imagination...