Word: bryants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review of each book, a matter of strategy, vigilance, scandal. One was the recognition by America that its literature was good. The experience was like the sudden awakening of an ex-slave to the knowledge of his freedom, his worth and his inheritance. Griswold's anthology contained Longfellow, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Lowell, Whittier. (Griswold slighted the South...
...James Bryant Conant, President of the University, officially welcomed the Naval Training School (Indoctrination and Communication) on behalf of the University and pledged cooperation in this war as Harvard has cooperated with the armed services of the United States from the first world war back to housing Colonial troops during the Revolutionary...
...Radcliffe WAVES. Only one honorary academic hood* was slipped over a distinguished head, and that belatedly-Joseph Grew, '02, had been confined in Tokyo when his LL.D. was awarded him a year ago. Last week he was back among such friends as Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, '13 and Governor of Massachusetts Leverett Saltonstall...
...Detroit's tree-shaded Grand Boulevard stands Henry Ford's own hospital, famed for its skillful surgeons, its spacious research laboratories. But when ailing Edsel Bryant Ford stepped through its doors seven weeks ago with his quick, springy stride, nothing could be done for him. So, at 49, Edsel Ford returned to his sprawling grey stone house beside grey Lake St. Clair to await death. Last week it came...
Civil war in the U.S. within a decade after the peace, and the loss of freedom on the North American continent seem serious possibilities to Harvard's shrewd, studious President James Bryant Conant. Last week, in an article in the May Atlantic Monthly entitled "Wanted: American Radicals," he proposed some preventives...