Word: maine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Discussing the organization of Russian universities, Karpovitch stated that one of the main ways for a student to make money was to take good lecture notes and sell them to his classmates for several rubles. As a result of this practice which was condoned by the professors, very few of the students took notes and "did not have their heads bent over notebooks...
...vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand up against a white one. His two main interests: tuberculosis research in Louisville, Ky., a U. S. Negro theatre...
...Midwest university furnishes Author Fisher's main clinical specimens. Mouthpiece is lanky, whimsical, brilliant Jim Jones, head of the psychology department, who psychologizes the theme of the book: that "both among persons and nations" over-or underdevelopment of the ego causes most contemporary maladjustment, with sex playing the decisive role...
...James Bramwell has placed it in perspective against some 1,700 other works about the sunken continent, acknowledges that for many believers in the Atlantis theory Donnelly's masterpiece is the "beall and end-all of Atlantean studies." Author Bramwell himself takes the Atlantis myth seriously, but his main purpose is to review Atlantean writing from Plato to the findings of contemporary geologists. The result is another literary oddity, a smoothly-written, ironic 288-page essay, partly a compendium of the work of cranks, partly exposition of some unsolved scientific puzzles...
...Aryans, that when it was destroyed only three Aryans escaped. "Then comes the unexpected denouement," says Author Bramwell. "It turns out that the whole point of the book is to show that the author is descended from Jupiter." Although Lost Atlantis contains careful expositions of the Atlantean arguments, the main impression it communicates is not that Atlantis ever existed but that Author Bramwell, as a literary sophisticate who has tired of heavier fare, has a tender feeling for the writing of cranks, if only they are cranky enough...