Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, and a set of silk-toppered plainclothesmen. From far & near burst a crescendo of cheers from some 250,000 throats. Thus heralded was George VI's first arrival at Epsom Downs as King, to view the 157-year-old racing classic founded by the 12th Earl of Derby...
...Sweringen pyramid more painlessly than could Congress. First step, said he, would be elimination of Alleghany Corp., not Chesapeake Corp. as he had announced fortnight before. But Babe Young appeared for the first time genuinely starry-eyed when he confessed that he had never heard of the classic 1,800-page report on railroad holding companies made in 1931 by ICCommissioner Walter Marshall William Splawn, nor of its highly reputed author. An expert on utility holding companies, deliberate, bespectacled Commissioner Splawn also did the spadework that resulted in the Federal Communications Commission investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph (TIME, April...
...issue, Mr. Mark W. Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
...newsstands with an amazingly apposite article. Title: "Five O'Clock, Off California-"Author: Lieutenant George W. Campbell, U. S. N. Subject: the breaking-up and loss of the Navy dirigible Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined detail of the Macon's last flight, from the rising siren to the final, gentle crash on the surface of the sea and the pyre...
...half courses which he will offer next year on Prussian literature one will deal with the classic and romantic, the other with the phase from...