Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greater American interest in the Middle East has created a demand for these languages," Joshua Whatmough, chairman of the Department, declared yesterday. "Many people want to prepare for government or oil company jobs in that area," he said...
Doriot expressed interest in the relations of science and business last year when he stumped for the construction of a $10,000,000 Army laboratory on the banks of the Charles near Harvard. The Army research lab would have investigated, among other things, the relation of man's efficiency in relation to his environment...
...dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about. In a matter of minutes Shafer's admiration was aroused and he found a new and absorbing interest in life. That...
...part, Mark Van Doren's new biography of Hawthorne is no exception. When it deals with Hawthorne's life, it follows all the smooth old academic stereotypes. Whenever it touches on Hawthorne's writing, however, the book picks up interest at once. Of The Wives of the Dead, one of the most poignant stories in the English language, he says: "No reader of it will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal...
Harvard's lead had widened so much near the finish line that the large crowd which banked both sides of the river showed considerably more interest in the battle for second place than in the Crimson finish...