Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early financial problems were great, according to both Peter and Mama. "When I got to America, I had $5.50," recalls Peter, "and when I paid the express for my trunk I didn't have anything." Peter, who spoke no English them, went on in the shoe repair business, and gradually turned his trade to bigger and better things. To the shoe repair business was soon added that of shoemaking. The Limmers showed a sample pair of ski boots around, but in 1924 there weren't many skiers in America...
...turning out the social science experts, men who are learning how to close the historic breach--but we don't know where to put them. In the teaching profession, there is standing room only, and a great University must turn to "negative guidance," forced to warn its college graduates that the demand for social science experts is limited...
...face it. Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates are not turning out Great Literature. The undergraduate anywhere whose literary creations can stand successfully in the publishing market, or find an audience in the public of high or low brow, is a rare and fortunate fellow indeed...
...story is about a music-hating man (Douglas) married to a would-be concert soprano (Celeste Holm). All is dandy until she begins a singing career. In Douglas' hour of agony, who should happen along but a famous opera star (Miss Darnell) who discovers that he has a great voice, and persuades him to regain control of the family by singing in concerts and opera himself...
Commenting on the significance of the Gutenberg Bible, William A. Jackson, professor of Bibliography and head of Houghton Library, said that the book remains of great interest today because it achieved enduring perfection so soon after the first work was done on printing...