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...interesting to read in your review of the last Lampoon that A Lay of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Ybarra '05, is "lifeless," "trite," and "unfunny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Lay of Rome | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...rest of the poems are lifeless treatments of relatively trite topics. Thomas Ybarra '05, for example, throws in Latin Words that can fit into context either by their meanings or sounds and comes up with an unfunny "Lay of Ancient Rome"; Porter Wilcox '43 makes some observations about televised hearings that everyone else has undoubtedly figured out for himself...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

What the committeemen think about the U.S. brand will finally be incorporated in their report. It may surprise U.S. radiomen who confidently believe that the U.S. leads the world. Justin Miller, president of the U.S. National Association of Broadcasters, has dismissed British and all foreign radio as "dull, lifeless dishwater . . . and great doses of government propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: London Calling | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

During World War II, the old gold-rush town of Nome, Alaska had echoed to the roar of aircraft and bulldozers, the bustle of 10,000 U.S. troops. But last week, though gold dredges still clanked on its outskirts, the dusty, ramshackle little subarctic settlement looked almost lifeless again. At the Air Force's Marks Field, 500 miles beyond the main U.S. defense lines, trucks and crates stood ready for the barges which would carry them south to Anchorage. As the jet plane flies, Siberian airfields were only half an hour away; by the time next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Ready for Trouble | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...middle of the road, where he could raise his hands to surrender. As they tore across a paddy field, they turned back to have a last look at their friend. It was just in time to see him cut in half by Red Tommy guns, his feeble, lifeless hands still waving in the crisp summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Down the Peninsula | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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