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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western United States, and therefore the country as a whole, faces bank-ruptcy and disaster if today's meager water supplies are not carefully conserved, prominent historian and author Bernard DeVoto '18 warned last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

Since the West exists on the "knife-edge of natural sanction," DeVoto said, "there is no margin of flexibility in violation of conservation laws." The former Pulitzer prize winner in History spoke before over 100 people in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Needs to Conserve Critical Water Supply or Face Collapse, DeVoto Warns | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

...Bernard deVoto '18, literary critic and historian of the West, will speak at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House junior common room. The lecture, "The Damnedest Country Under the Sun," is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Voto to Speak | 11/9/1955 | See Source »

...DeVoto, former English instructor here, will discuss Turner's Thesis and its application to the West as he relates recent developments in the West. He is expected to include an analysis of conservation in his talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Voto to Speak | 11/9/1955 | See Source »

...fortunate indeed who delves no more deeply into Marjorie Morningstar than a reading of its able review. Not since Bernard DeVoto's The Year of Decision: 1846 has so much been said, by so few, about so little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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