Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book under his arm. Last week this man was trading in empires...
...anguish of mind was not so great, however, that he could not find time to write one more book (bringing his total, including the six volumes of his masterpiece, Marlborough, a biography of his famed warrior ancestor, to 19); to write articles, lecture, gamble, and swell his income to around $100,000 a year, to potter around his estate at "Chartwell," where he relaxes by putting up small brick buildings-he once belonged to a bricklayers' union-to play a little polo, paint tolerable landscapes which he exhibited under the name of "Charles Marin," and to organize a group...
...question that has long worried Manhattan Freelance Journalist Amram Scheinfeld. To solve his problems he consulted a score of famous U. S. geneticists, read several hundred treatises on heredity. This week Journalist Scheinfeld published the first sound, popular treatise on the facts & fictions of heredity.*Main theme of the book is that heredity and environment are a dynamic combination, that development of personality is not governed exclusively by one or the other. Some of his points...
...last semiannual report (to February 28) Phoenix listed investments with a book value of $6,481,682, and unctuously noted the information that their market value was $5,976,867 greater. Last week Phoenix' president gave out some information indicating that it soon might have an even more unctuous note...
...runs Senior Class elections and Senior Album elections. Of much more interest to Freshmen is the Council's financial guarantee of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances and the Freshman Red Book (annual yearbook). Besides these, it contributes to the support of the Freshman Smoker, the class get-together and fun-fest in the spring...