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Word: bilignin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...confesses to inertia and a poor memory. An omnivorous reader, she was haunted in early life by the fear that some day she would have nothing left to read; nowadays she no longer worries about it. Though she lives in France (summers she spends in her house at Bilignin) she never reads French, even so much as a newspaper. She ''feels with her eyes," says she sometimes used to rest them by staring "straight up into a summer noon sun." If somebody asks her a question suddenly it upsets her, drives everything out of her head. She swears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stem's Way | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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