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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even more than French ones? The adjectives valuable, scholarly and realistic have been used [by other critics] to describe the book, which give a different impression from that conveyed by your reviewer. After all, one doesn't endure, for eight years, in exile, the difficulties which were a constant factor of my work on the book, just to embroider in emerald floss another portrait of Emmet suitable for use on a cuddly sofa cushion. It took guts and ingenuity even to stay in Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Library officials have known about the Lamont project for several years, Metcalf added. Procurement of books for the edifice has been going on for some time, he said, in addition to the constant expansion of Widener Library at the average rate of 105,000 volumes a year since the first World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Demand, Inflation Hinder Widener Expansion | 3/9/1948 | See Source »

...others may have a turn; but it is hard to get much done when someone is sitting three chairs away waiting eagerly for the end of the hour. The University should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where it is subject mostly to afternoon and evening rushes. Besides, that long invigorating walk through the cool and healthful night air is highly over-rated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven White Elephants | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Winchell, he "has had us at the very verge of war with Russia almost every Sunday night for the last two years [with] ... his constant poisoning of the well of public opinion." How had transom-peeker Winchell become an expert in foreign affairs? He had trained for it on items about "who was going to divorce whom, and who was going to have a baby, and approximately when." And he was fallible even there. With a scandalized look at the ethics of columnists, the Enquirer quoted him: "'The Monocle Set . ... doubt the recent rumor (that Queen Liz is enceinte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Let the Buyer Beware | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

must be an integral functioning part of the University, the Committee has ensured that the sacrifice of the University's war dead will be a constant stimulus and example to future generations of Harvard...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Saltonstall Committee Proposes New Mem Hall Activities Rooms and Theater, Church Tablet | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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