Word: conan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conan's innovations at Harvard have been received with popular acclaim or have turned out successfully. In 1937 he announced a plan of non-departmental, non-credit extra-curricular work in American history to "innoculate the student body with an educational virus." The plan was complete with prizes and six men hired as "Counselors in American History," but the student body took very slowly to the innoculations. The war served to kill the program...
...flown speculations about the metaphysics and poetry of flight, has sensibly followed a straight chronological pattern. His opening section mixes solid historical accounts of the infancy of flying with a John Dos Passes dithyramble (from The Big Money) on the Wright brothers, a pleasantly batty story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on an "air jungle" high over Britain, and a tale about Tom Swift taking" his girl up, which opens with the classic line: "Oh, Tom, is it really safe...
...London, Mrs. Adrian Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, announced a new dollar-earning scheme. She will bring the Baker Street room of Sherlock Holmes, assembled for exhibition at the Festival of Britain, on a tour of the U.S. next spring...
Andy spent his twelfth year with cardboard, scissors and paint, making a miniature theater and players for a performance of Arthur Conan Doyle's 15th-Century romance The White Company. The show, staged singlehanded for the family, opened Pa Wyeth's eyes. "Tomorrow morning," he told Andy, "you're going to start studying. Come into the studio...
...dither in the London Times over collective nouns for animals [TIME, June 4]: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 14th-Century romance Sir Nigel speaks of a cete of badgers, a singular of boars, a sounder of swine (when hunted), a nye of pheasants, a badling of ducks, a fall of woodcock, a wisp of snipe...