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Word: manuscripts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your June 13 book review of Calvin Hoffman's tale regarding Shakespeare. Seldom has a more ridiculous manuscript found its way into print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Pulling a manuscript from one pocket and glasses from another, he planted his feet widely and started reading in his loud, cocky miner's voice. "Dear Comrade Tito . . . and leaders of the Yugoslav Communist League," he bawled. Instantly, Tito's handsome features froze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Come Back, Little Tito | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second volumes in the series. The third set on the Church Fathers, after a seven-year delay for revision, is now at the press, while the material for other books lies squeezed in two large manuscript filled filing cabinets at one end of the room. This series, together with his project of publishing Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle in three languages (which should fill a hundred volumes when completed) along with many articles constitute the core of Wolfson's work...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Search for Baruch | 5/24/1955 | See Source »

There is a widespread academic tendency to pass off Thomas Wolfe as an undisciplined child, as "wild little Tommy." When Wolfe is discussed, inevitably the conversation turns on the fact that he could manage to scrawl only three giant, illegible words on a page of manuscript, or to the fact that he sent off four orange-crates of novel to his publisher. In Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has attempted to approach the author and his works intelligently, and to treat them as something besides a gigantic, but insignificant, oddity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intimations of Immortality | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

Robin Hood. In London, Gerald Bolitho was sentenced to 21 months in jail despite his plea that in stealing a rare manuscript from the British Museum he did the museum a good turn, "because I have shown up a defect in their system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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