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Word: cecil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio Hornblower is an omnibus of Cecil Scott Forester's three novels (the first two, Beat to Quarters and Ship of the Line already published) of an English naval genius in Napoleonic times. More imaginative than Mutiny on the Bounty, it is that rare book, adventure romance treated realistically, lively entertainment with sound historical background, fast narrative with subtle characterization. Captain Horatio Hornblower stacks up with the most exciting and best written adventure stories in the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure Classic | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

After a two hour elimination speech contest, six qualifiers for the Freshman debating team to face Princeton and Yale on May 19 were chosen yesterday by Cecil F. Rowe '31, advisor to the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Freshmen Selected for May Yale-Princeton Debate | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...institution as heterogeneous as Harvard; that brand of indifference arising out of the cross-sectional character of the undergraduate body is generally thought to be in conflict with the homogeneous collegiatism essential to a successful class affair. Perhaps more rational is the fear that a single prom of Cecil B. DeMille proportions would appeal only to a limited class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections to the unwieldiness of the affair, the absence of spirit except of the "colossal" sort, the danger of unpleasant notoriety, are heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GUSTIBUS . . . | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

Introduced to a Chicago lecture audience by Novelist Margaret Aver Barnes (Years of Grace, Wisdom's Gate), Sinclair Lewis declared that he and her husband, Chicago Attorney Cecil Barnes, are in the same boat: "I also am married to a very distinguished woman [talkative Columnist Dorothy Thompson]. She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

When Manager Ross sold ailing veteran Goalie Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson to Detroit (TIME, Dec. 12) and put Rookie Brimsek in the nets, Boston fans raised the Garden roof. But Eddie Shore, who had been an early holdout, came to work, gave Rookie Crawford many a pointer, all season gave Rookie Brimsek the stoutest defense any goalie ever got. Upshot of that was that Brimsek was this season's No. 1 goalie. Art Ross's other prize performer was 22-year-old Roy Conacher, brother of famed Pucksters Charley and Lionel. Throughout the season Roy has pounded home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mightiest Bruin | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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