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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the difficulty about the awards is caused by the requirements involved. The Arnold essay of close to 10,000 words on book collecting would seem quite difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $1750 in Prizes Waits for Claiming | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...disappearance of those cards from the Harvard scene is difficult to explain, but University police confirmed an informal canvass of the houses Tuesday which implied that the football lotteries were not to be found in the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Pools Invade Fertile BU Territory | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...difficult to criticize, this Signature. These people are not writers; they are learning to write. Some have learned much since their last published attempts; others, A. Stavrolakes and Naomi Raphaelson, have already produced more artfully than they do in the current issue. Therefore one cannot just take aim and fire. It would be too much like shooting a fawn...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...might be that these people have nothing to say. But it's difficult to talk when you're smothered by such amateur symbolism as: "Oh Dante, I'm in hell" (Handy). Perhaps it's just a matter of getting the words out right and putting the paragraphs in order, techniques which can be acquired. Anyway, isn't it pretty to think...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fun for Young & Old | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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