Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturers are coming to the conclusion that they will have a tough time selling color sets outright at their current prices-$700 & up for a receiver with 12½-inch picture, plus a $250-to-$300 service contract. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. has decided to lease its first sets instead of selling them, will not sell until color sets are better...
...Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there is a bank that has been called the "most literate bank in the world" (among the 100 "books published by our customers in the past two years" it once displayed: James Conant's Education and Liberty, Arthur Schlesinjer's Cotton Kingdom, Geologist Reginald Daly's Igneous Rock...
...Along Eliot's five feet of authors: Milton, Emerson, Virgil, Robert Burns, Goethe, Adam Smith, William Penn, Dante, Darwin, Homer. Among the omissions T.R. protested: Aristotle, Thucydides, Chaucer, Moliere...
Late in the winter of 1949, Gerhart Eisler told 500 students in Emerson D what Marx thought about social change. The audience that heard the East German Communist that night was a singularly passive one; no jeers or outbursts marked the meeting as unusual. But the controversy raised by the meeting clarified Harvard's thinking in a very important...
Perry edited the works of both American and English writers, including "The Heart of Emerson's Journals," and an 18-volume "Little Masterpiece" series...