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...still a distinct improvement. But it is high time to call a halt to this contemplation of Cambridge's rapid architectural metamorphosis and settle down to the duties of the coming year. With lectures to begin Wednesday there is no time to lose, for just around the corner lurk the wheels of knowledge just on the point of starting their nine month's grind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/18/1930 | See Source »

...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Fiction | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself to glide into the starfish's protuberant stomach. Oystermen have learned to clear the water of starfish by using a long mop, but other foes lurk beneath the surface. There are snailfish molluscs known as drills, borers, whelks and conches that congregate upon the oyster in such masses that they smother him. And the drum fish, sometimes several feet long, has such stout teeth that he can crush the oyster, shell and all. Attempts have been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: May Day in Bivalve | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Johnsons Off Again | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...punishment, last week, of an Indian publisher and an Indian printer who dared to put forth at Calcutta last year a chunky, controversial book by a snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield a potent verbal cudgel in defense of the two Indians who sat in a stinking Bengal jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Devil People? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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