Word: byronism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comintern's dissolution (TIME, May 31), heady as a couple of beakers of vodka, had put all in jovial humor. The statesmen saw what a long way the three Allies had come within a year. The crusty old reserve was melting. A new understanding seemed dawning. Pushkin & Byron. The keynoter was Russia. Gone was yesteryear's cry for a second front, yesterday's disdain for the Anglo-American military effort. The Soviet press now gave due and admiring credit to American Lend-Lease, to the air blows over western Europe, to assembling invasion armies. The Russians were...
...Milton Bloch (Mathematics), Jerome Ira Brawer (Area of Social Science), Edward Herrick Cook, John Daniel Cotman, Jr. (Chemistry), Joseph Bailey Dillon (Economics), Donald Forte (Sociology), William Arthur Glynn (Romance Languages and Literatures), Harry Samuel Hall (Government), Bradford Davis Haseltine (History), Myron Stuart Kaufmann, Richard Henri MacNeal (Engineering Sciences), Vyv Byron Mather, (Economics), Edward Julian Modest (Chemistry...
...start the new week, approximately, seventy-five. Officer Candidates will march to Potter Auditorium at 1100 o'clock where they will be accepted into the Air Reserve as Statistical Officers. Colonel Byron C. Gates, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Management Control, plans on being present, to welcome the new officers, but should he be unable to appear, his representative will be on hand. Colonel William S. Wood, of the Army Training Schools, Harvard University, will give a brief address to the men on the responsibilities of their new duties. It is hoped that Colonel Clyde V. Finter, Commanding Officer...
Premier Pierre Laval was reported dickering for a piece of real estate on the shore of Switzerland's Lake Geneva-where Byron's famed Prisoner of Chillon ate his heart...
...Texas House of Representatives last week found some of George Gordon, Lord Byron's writings "not fit to be read by any person within or without the University [of Texas]." The House resolved to investigate the $20,000 purchase, for the university's noted rare-book collection, of early editions of Byron, Browning, Lamb, Shelley, Tennyson and Petronius Arbiter. All the House charged, were "obscene" or "atheistic...