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Word: maine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reprints: Vernon L. Parrington's "Main Currents in American Thought" is no available in one volume. Still te best study of American literature, as far as it goes . . . Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is also to be had in one volume . . . Still another telescoping in Edward McCurdy's spendid edition of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", very good to have or give . . . Professor John Livingston Lowes' classic of literary research. "The Read to Xangdn," has now been reprinted. May it long serve to remind us that literary scholarship can itself produce the finest of literature

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...increase in wages granted to waitresses last spring was given by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, as the main cause for the change in board rates this fall. He stated last year that "the cumulative effect of these (labor) adjustments has been such that for the past two years the receipts of dining halls have failed by a considerable margin to cover the charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticklish Problems in Lowering Rates Face New Council Committee on Board | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...weak Freshman quintet meets the Bruin Cubs in a preamble to the main encounter tonight. Holtan, Scully, Hall, Phelan, and Royer will start for the Yardlings...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: ROTHSCHILD IS PLACED ON LINEUP OF QUINTET | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...blue-carpeted, wide circular staircase to the main ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel paraded 99 of this season's debutantes, wealthy, wellborn, circumspect in public, acceptable to the Old Guard of Manhattan society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...year, Argentinian production is only about 1,700 tons a year. U. S. peacetime needs are 6-7,000 tons a month (current needs: 7-12,000 tons). In 1929, at their peak, Bolivian mines were able to produce ore equivalent to only 55% of U. S. tin needs. Main precaution against a tin famine remains the stockpile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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