Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common practice for a pipsqueak versifier to identify himself with a better poet by stealing his lines. But for a minor poetess to accuse a minor poet of stealing her queer numbers is something again. Last week Nathalia Crane, Brooklyn child "prodigy," author of a book called Lava Lane which amazed critics by its pomposity, its facility, its jaw-dislocating decasyllabics, and by the fact that it had been written by a person not yet adolescent, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York World in which she intimated certain things about Joseph Auslander, author of Sunrise Trumpets...
...with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself the author of great advances in electrical communication, Dr. Pupin predicted the ultimate translation of cosmic messages from the surrounding universe, especially those emissions of the sun which are now looked upon as nuisances to earthly radio since they cause "static" and "fading...
Professor Rand is one of the greatest living authorities on classical literature. His recent book, "Ovid and His Influence", has been well received. He is prominent as editor, author and translator...
...work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language. Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that...
...Embassy at Brussels, desirous of securing a collection of War books designed for presentation to the Library of Eton College, sent inquiries to the Harvard University Press concerning the small book, "Harvard Volunteers in Europe," and the more extensive publication of five volumes, "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead". The authorities of the Press made the presentation, and President Lowell and M.A. DeW. Howe '87, the author and editor of the "War Memoirs," signed their names to an appropriate inscription...