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Even amid national crises, the London Times could not bear to leave the ramparts of the King's English unmanned. Last week the Times fired away at the word personnel, "this alien collective" from across the Channel. It doubted that "a more degrading, a more ill-favoured, synonym for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Alien Collective | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Some three-fourths of Author Barzun's book is taken up with biographical sketches of Darwin, Marx, Wagner, which serve as background for the development of their ideas. Barzun describes Darwin's difficulties in getting famed British Publisher John Murray to publish On the Origin of Species by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

As a British citizen and a believer in and worker for tangible democracy as opposed to the pseudo brand favoured by the small but tragically influential clique of imperialists which "runs" the British Empire, I share your resentment and dismay that such an extremely undemocratic and reactionary person as Halifax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

Coach Hal Ulen's nataterial side show led by Captain Franny Powers invades the brand new M.I.T. pool tonight at 8 o'clock highly favoured to leave the Bollermakers from along the Basin hanging on the splash gutters and gasping for breath, if respective clockings to-date carry any weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERMEN THREATEN TO DROWN M.I.T | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

When Maxwell Anderson, and Eugene O'Neill, and Clifford Odets are forgotten, and the Empire State Building is one with the Coliseum, and Beacon Hill is of no more consequence than the Palatine, Plautus will still be a name that is known by a favoured few, and the man of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIXISTI, PUERI | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

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