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...farm, saved money by buying eggs and sending the laundry out. He could truly boast that he had a good-looking campus, one of the most beautiful in the U. S. In a few weeks its apple and cherry trees and its 150,000 daffodil bulbs will begin to blossom. But his principal achievement was what he had done to Swarthmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going Concern | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...until 1918 did The Nation blossom out into a full-blown crusading radical weekly. Publisher Villard had opposed U. S. entry into the war, and in The Nation he set out to blast imperialism, war, monopoly, reaction. The Nation campaigned to have U. S. troops recalled from Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, denounced the Treaty of Versailles, fulminated against lynching, helped to uncover the Teapot Dome oil scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nation's 75th | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Included in the herbarium are some 15,000 different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oakes Ames Gives Orchid Collection to Harvard Museum | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

...flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should be given up for dead in New Haven. New York may blossom with big rival games every Saturday that cut into the Bowl trade, but Boston provides stiff competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOLA BLUES | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...themes that will enrich the literature of the future. It will be a virile literature, spurning the foetid abnormality of recent novels. With war lords as its patrons, and the blood lust of Europe as the well-spring of its existence, a new literature is about to blossom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR BABY OR INCUNABULA? | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

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