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Word: essayant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard University, as cultural attache in the U.S. embassy in Rome. Snowden is a Negro, and he is far from cultureless. He holds A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in classics from Harvard. As an under graduate (class of '32), he won a classics prize with an essay written in Greek and signed "Plato." Says Snowden, chuckling: "If you look in the Harvard Library index under Plato, you find one card that says, 'See Snowden.' " He reads Latin, Greek, German, French and Italian, and has written learned essays on slavery in ancient Pompeii and the role of Ethiopians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Rome | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...fewer than 106 G.O.P. congressional candidates with a beaming Dwight Eisenhower, and there is still a waiting list of anxious politicians. Last week, at his regular press conference, Ike was asked what qualifications a Congressman needed to get into a presidential picture. His answer was a brief essay on party loyalty and Ike's own plans for the coming campaign. It was also a warning to Republican irregulars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Helping Hand | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...blow the referee's whistle. But Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson has long managed to write his own music and blow the whistle on the music of others without missing a play. Whether he was reporting on the nuances in a symphony performance, "discovering" a debutante performer, delivering an essay on one of the intricacies of composition itself, or unabashedly plugging his own works, he hardly ever bored a reader. Last week, after 14 years of what he calls a "honeymoon" with New York's Herald Tribune, waspish Virgil Thomson, 57, announced that he was "tired of listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tired of Listening | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...article, "Alone," would be hard to equal. But when you add to it a charge of timidity against a nation that has in its time fought and beaten (usually at unfavorable odds) the French, Dutch, Russians, Spaniards, Italians, Chinese, Japanese and Germans and burnt down the White House, your essay in self-righteousness is the utmost presumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Carole Latter '56 has won the James Bryant Conant '14 scientific essay prize of $50, awarded for the first time this year. Her essay was entitled "The Industrial Revolution in the Textile Industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radeliffe Sophomore Is Winner Of Conant Science Essay Prize | 6/16/1954 | See Source »

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