Word: donning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I don't want to castigate anyone unfairly, but I would like to know if you misquoted Henry Browne Wallace or if he really did say, "father gets castrated so often in print" [TIME, Oct. 10]. If he did, it is easy to believe that he "reads only books...
"He just went about telling us, 'Don't be afraid. Why are you afraid? What can happen to you?'. . . And we realized with a tremendous lifting of the burden that was within us that there was really nothing to fear. .. Even the poor peasant straightened his back...
Ed went to the Intourist hotel in a Packard. "We rode," he says, "along a magnificent highway. It had twelve lanes but no automobiles. Just bums along the road. At the hotel they asked how much money I had. I showed them my travelers' checks and they said they...
In spite of his shyness, young John did well at school, and at 15 was ready to enter the University of Vermont. There he fell in love with learning, borrowed $500 from an aunt and set off for the six-year-old Johns Hopkins University for more study. "Don'...
The New England Deposit Library is a library for books that people don't read. It contains those gems of Harvard's 5,000,000-volume aggregation which have been found to be least in demand. Keeping these company are the littlest-read books from 11 other libraries, including the...