Word: laine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
After the court recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in a periodic coma, Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, died of cerebral hemorrhage...
Communist armies exploded into action again along the Shanghai front, which had lain quiet for 15 uneasy days. From the top floor of Broadway Mansions, Shanghai's tallest apartment building, tenants saw sharp flashes of cannon fire across the Whangpoo River, and the glow of burning villages farther to the north. At week's end, Red General Chen Yi's forces, driving relentlessly from the west and southwest, were within eight miles of the city. Simultaneously, two Red armies from the northwest knifed in toward Woosung Fort at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze rivers...
...three man lateral play covering some 25 yards resulted in a touch (down) shortly after the start of the second half and rave the Rugby Club a 3 to 0 victory over McGill University Saturday afternoon in the resumption of a rivalry which has lain dormant for 57 years...
Results of the final casting for the first Lain play at the College in 13 years, the Harvard Classical Players' "Miles Gloriosus," were announced yesterday...