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This atlas was first suggested by Professor E. S. Sturtevant of Yale. At the invitation of the American Council of Learned Societies a group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRANDGENT PLANS TO WRITE LANGUAGE ATLAS THIS YEAR | 3/21/1931 | See Source »

"Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERSE IN MARCH NUMBER OF ADVOCATE EXCELS UNCONVINCING PROSE | 3/15/1930 | See Source »

This compromise with purity enables various of the unfaithful to get a little exercise and breathe the fresh air of nature for a few hours each Sunday and many are thankful for the tortuosity of belief which allows it. One factor still remains in the situation, however, to plague the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNDAY SERVICE | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

IRON AND SMOKE-Sheila Kaye-Smith -Dutton ($2.50). The emotion which Author Kaye-Smith understands most fully, hence describes better than any other, is the emotion which men feel for their land; the humble, genuine, particular patriotism of farmers, squires, men of the soil. In most of her previous books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aches and Acres | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

The dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laughter | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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