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Word: emersons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she was two years old, little Maxine Yarrington of Erie, Pa. skipped around pestering her mother with endless chatter, like any other normal child. One day she grew feverish, complained of a headache, a stiff back. Mrs. Yarrington put her to bed, called Dr. Howard Bassett Emerson. For a while little Maxine cried and mumbled, but gradually her voice trailed off, and burrowing into the warm quilts, she fell asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Awakening | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Putting forward a program of active support of the Ludlow Amendment, the Harvard Anti-War Committee last night entered the arena of peace organizations on the campus in its first open meeting at Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Peace Organization Favors War Referendum And 'Articulate Policy' | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Harvard A. I. L. has been making plans for its first membership meeting in order to outline future policy and to elect officers. Donald C. McKay, assistant professor of History, will speak at the rally to be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. I. L. CHAPTERS WILL HOLD MEETING AT FAIR | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Realometer | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...first of a series of five lectures presented by the Harvard Catholic Club. Thomas F. Woodlock, railroads expert, will speak on "Threats To American Liberties" at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Catholic Club Starts Lectures | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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