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...high school Latin or two of Greek, or the equivalent in College courses, are prerequisite. Beyond this, a minimum of five full courses, with three more in related fields, is necessary before tackling the required thesis. Honors candidates must work with an eye to the General Examinations, which blanket the whole field of literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/18/1947 | See Source »

...rescue crew went down. Every four hours a black-faced, exhausted gang came up and terror hung in the tipple as women studied their faces. After a while bodies came up, too, each one on a stretcher, and each covered, neatly, but not warmly, by a blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death in Main West | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Eight miles from our downtown office we saw one that offered for a bed a straw mat covered with an old army blanket. It had no kitchen utensils, dining-room chairs, or light fixtures. It did have a lovely fountain on a vast second-floor terrace. Price: $250 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Apartment in Rio | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

After a lifetime of futile warring, peace-loving Moshesh, founder of the Basuto nation, wrote to Queen Victoria in 1868: "I am glad that my people have been allowed to rest and live in the large folds of the blanket of England. My country is your blanket, O Queen, and my people are the lice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Lice in the Blanket | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...includes practically every trick imaginable, from dropping 5,000 parachutes at the Kentucky Derby to beach stickers which spell out the title on sunburned skin-makes Hollywood's normally brassy efforts in this line look pale. Duel is currently showing only in Los Angeles; the plan is to blanket the country, area by area, during the spring and summer, releasing some 350 prints before fall. Reasons for the distribution delay: 1) labor troubles have delayed Technicolor processing; 2) difficulties with United Artists have forced Mr. Selznick to set up his own distribution machinery (Selznick Releasing Organization) overnight; 3) Duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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