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Word: french (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Kennard Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, and Mrs. Rand have been made Chevaliers of the Legion of Honor by the French Government, it was reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: France's Legion Of Honor Given to Professor Rand | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

Igor Strawinsky, noted Russian composer, will give a free public lecture, in French, tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. This is the first of Mr. Strawinsky's series of six lectures at Harvard as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strawinsky to Speak Tomorrow | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Standing on opposite sides of the Franco-Belgian border, Belgian Marie Cattoin, unable to cross as a neutral, and French Aviator Pierre Delespeaux, unable to cross as a belligerent, were married. After the ceremony, Mme Delespeaux stepped into France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...history professors rewrote German history; its National School Service (circulation: 20,000,000 homes); its syndicated news (20,000 columns a week), boiler-plate ads, feature stories by such writers as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Booth Tarkington, Rex Beach. Few have forgotten the CPI's war expositions, its traveling French officers, such stunts as Theda Bara in her Liberty Bond booth before the New York Public Library (receipts: $300,000 in one day). But the most voluminous memory will be surprised at the scope of the CPI in Words that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CPI | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Sharp-minded critics had their reservations about the quality of Prokosch's world picture, still further reservations about his fundamental drive as a prose writer. Like his two books of poetry, the novels suggested a virtuoso's familiarity with English, French and Oriental literature; in places this familiarity became obtrusive, as in one chapter ending of The Asiatics which echoed (beautifully) a paragraph from Baudelaire's Intimate Journals. What would be the result if this young American, born in Wisconsin and educated at Haverford and Yale, turned his imagination to his own country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plausible Echoes | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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