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Word: grahame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry department, ditties about President Conant and a television-oriented housewife by Clement Despard and J. H. Updyke, are both witty and lively. Charles Osborne's introductory lament over the nothingness to say about freshmen is a cleverly expressed bit of circular thought, while David Graham's soliloquy on "burgers" suffers only from overextension...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 9/26/1951 | See Source »

...remaining three stories, Arlen's "The Literary Life" is a very witty treatment of a magazine advertisement that was literally true, but Graham's attempt to apply the style of "Lifemanship" to a description of the Harvard Activities Man falls rather flat. A Pooh-style description of Registration by Osborne rounds out the issue in a sprightly manner...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 9/26/1951 | See Source »

...assistant professors of Government are having books published this fall. Robert G. McCloskey's "American Conservatism and the Age of Enterprise" analyzes the post-Civil War period through the personalities of Andrew Carnegie, William Graham Summer, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field. Arthur Maass' "Muddy Waters" discusses the Army Engineer Corps and its relation to the entire U.S. conservation program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press to Publish More of Roosevelt Letters | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...assistant professors of Government are having books published this fall. Robert G. McCloskey's "American Conservatism and the Age of Enterprise" analyzes the post-Civil War period through the personalities of Andrew Carnegie, William Graham Summer, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field. Arthur Maass' "Muddy Waters" discusses the Army Engineer Corps and its relation to the entire U.S. conservation program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press to Publish More of Roosevelt Letters | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...rained-out ball games, flash floods, dry spells, chicken-killing hailstorms, and all manner of crop damage. Beyond issuing a few over-the-shoulder rejoinders (sharp to the scientists, soothing to the citizenry), he pays little heed to such infidels, and goes on about his missionary work like Billy Graham gathering converts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Milkman of the Skies | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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