Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical Record last fortnight, Psychiatrist Frederick Lemere of Seattle, Wash, presented the following testimonial to the power of a book...
...intelligent college boy of 20 read Dale Carnegie's book How to Win Friends and Influence People, and suddenly turned from a shy, introspective, seclusive, sensitive individual to an excited, superficially friendly, overly confident egoist. Aware of his new found power, he developed a plan whereby he would relieve working men of their jobs for a week or two so that they might have a vacation...
...Mass, police sped to the U. S. Army's Watertown Arsenal. There beside the railroad tracks, Graflex in hand, was Lucius Beebe, who elaborately explained that he was waiting for Boston & Albany's 601 to come by so that he could take its picture for his forthcoming book on American railroading...
...finest book that came out of the Spanish War was Andre Malraux's Man's Hope (TIME, Nov. 7). Alvah Bessie's book is not only the second finest; it is an addendum. Malraux's fictional account of the war ended with the Loyalist victory at Brihuega in March 1937. Bessie's personal story of eight months in the Lincoln Battalion begins in February 1938, six weeks before the battalion was cut to pieces in the Fascist drive to the sea. The author, a gifted short story writer and ex-Guggenheim fellow, took part...
...failed to name any successor. The possibilities for the position are apparently limited in the presidential mind to the members of the Committee sponsoring the Plan: the professors of American History and Literature. But one of these is following in the wake of Columbus, another is writing a book, a third is too busy, and a fourth just doesn't care. Mr. Conant has reached an impasse...