Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student." During his two years in Cambridge his letters bubble with reports of avid study, vast reading and literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large and earnest." Never had Robinson known happier days; it is doubtful...
...most miserable time began. He was forced to return to Gardiner because his father had died; the family funds were lost in the financial panic of that year. Yet none of these matters were discussed in his letters to Smith. He continued to write, instead, about Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Nathaniel Hawthorne. During these dreary years he was writing many of the poems that were later hailed as his masterpieces (Luke Haver gal, Richard Cory) and finding that he could place few of them in any magazine in the country. He kept his defeats to himself, letting them...
Rugby has produced such Englishmen as Matthew Arnold (Thomas' son), Lewis Carroll, Rupert Brooke, Neville Chamberlain and the new head master himself, , who as head boy of the school in 1917 occupied the famed "Tom Brown's Study," alongside the Head Master's House lie will now inherit. He also won his colors for Rugby and cricket...
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...Isthmus of Yucatan. Researchers financed through voluntary contributions to the society spent years living among these people to analyze their speech phonetically. Once the language is reduced to the Roman alphabet, the natives must be taught painstakingly to read it. New languages expressing the Logos of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John for the first time last year embraced eleven of the "Amerindian" aggregation--Malisect, Potawatomic, and Menominee among the more obscure...