Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great teacher, the clearest lecturer I ever heard, in language so beautifully chosen that the ideas just sparkled. Emerson was always crowded when he gave Philosophy A, and his Philosophy 4 became famous as the locale of a great Owen Wistar story...
...words of the Apocraphs, "Let us now praise famous men"--and there is no better time than when writing about their house. Seward C. Simons '11 Oakland...
This is a good excuse for Columbia to slip in some of the better parts of the original picture, including famous Jolson songs-like "Mammy" and "Swanee...
...proto-planets" (as Kuiper calls the eddies) condensed into planets, each with a disc of loose material around it. Then the planets' discs turned into satellites. One planet, Saturn, retains part of its disc as the famous rings...
...abroad that it established Frances Trollope as a professional writer (she wrote more than 20 novels and books of travels in the remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide that of all books about the U.S. by visiting spitfires, they "like...