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Word: likings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the assistant profs' sweet salving ointment...

Author: By Jack Wllner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...truly you look like a martyred Saint...

Author: By Jack Wllner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom in the stacks so graduate students do not have to walk to the basement like other library users. Thus the graduate benefits at the expense of the undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR GRADUATES | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...cult of his own, established some sort of mystical communion with the cow, Susan, about whom he wrote what the lay mind cannot consider better than gibberish. Professor Tindall brings an uncompromising realism and common-sense to his subject, although he occasionally lapses into something like sympathy. Not that there can ever be true sympathy between a Mozartian on the one hand and a Wagnerite like Lawrence on the other! This is Professor Tindall's second study of a literary figure for whom he has no real liking (Bunyan was the first). We shall be interested to see the results...

Author: By Milton Crane., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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