Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Publisher Alfred Knopf sighed contentedly, poured forth a generous libation to the partial goddess of chance, bestirred himself to call the attention of the curious public to the fact that he had just, with commendable prevision, published the first of four parts of Ladislas St. Reymont's chief work. "Autumn, volume one of The Peasants," said Publisher Knopf some weeks ago, "would appear to be undoubtedly the greatest Polish novel of the Century." The award of the Nobel Prize goes far to support its publisher's pronunciamento...
...AUTUMN. BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE PEASANTS ? Ladislas St. Reymont ? Knopf...
...book is about as notable a piece of work as the autumn has produced. Mr. O'Higgins' style is eminently readable, his vision penetrating. He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity. His portrait of Julie is no less a finished study of a strange and intriguing personality...
...offer. Brown's victory was clear cut and decisive. That page in the record is closed. There remains but one more entry in this season's gridiron account book. A victory over Yale, according to the conventional University view, will make any season successful. Another defeat will imprint the autumn of 1924 indelibly as the most disastrous in Harvard football annals...
...autumn season of the National Academy of Sciences will begin this morning in Room 110, Pierce Hall. There will be two meetings one from 10 to 12 o'clock and the other in the afternoon from 2 to 4:30 o'clock...