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Word: brett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wallace Brett Donham '99, Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1919 to 1942, died last night at his home in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Dean W. Donham Of Busy School Dies In Cambridge Home | 11/30/1954 | See Source »

...novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn between the slavish loyalty demanded by his father and the slavish devotion he feels for his older sister, Brace. At the camera distance of one generation, 19-year-old Brace is the sister of Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley-a victim of the new conformism, revolt for revolt's sake. She says profane and obscene things just to shock people, and makes the relatively naive kisses of Fitzgerald's "flaming youth" seem as remote as the Gatling gun. United against their family and the world. Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost: Another Generation | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Died. Francis Brett Young, 70, British surgeon and novelist (My Brother Jonathan, A Man About the House); after long illness; in Cape Town, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Second eight ends up regularly behind the first. It includes but two experienced men--stroke, Brett Langstaff and number one, Nick Daniloff. Between the bow and stern are Vic Harwood, at port seven and Peter Viles at six. Fifth seat is held down by Tom Williams, with Ridge Green at number four and Bailey Silbert at port three. Troy Brown in two position rounds out the shell...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/17/1953 | See Source »

...FRANCINE BRETT New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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