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...most rock-headed set of answers the Committee of Education has offered to date. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many of my friends, History 1 has proven the most important single course in Harvard College. The origin and growth of every modern European nation not important? Falderol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...Matson Line has edged the wave-ruling British from the South Pacific; how American Export Lines almost made money without Government aid (see p. 30); how Lykes Bros, could lose $7,000,000 in the Gulf in seven years and still net $4,200,000; the diligent falderol and doubtful fun of a cruise to Havana; Maritime Labor; eight typical U. S. ports in paint, seven typical seamen in prose, twelve Margaret Bourke-White photographs of that pride of the U. S. seas, the old S. S. Leviathan, lying rust-bleared and indecent at a Hoboken dock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Down to the Sea . . . | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture is satisfactory and fills the time between 8 and 11 as well as most...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

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