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Word: middletowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference, which adheres closely to the theme, will include an address by Miss Lynd, co-author of "Middletown" and four panels of discussion. Panels are "Encroachments Upon Democracy in Education," "Teacher Welfare," "Workers in Education," and "Parent Responsibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teachers to Discuss Future of Education | 4/30/1941 | See Source »

Department of Economics and Social Science Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...rumor that Wes Fesler, head basketball coach and assistant football coach since 1933, will leave Harvard, was confirmed last night when Harold S. Wood, the Wesleyan director of Physical Education, announced that Fesler had been appointed head football coach at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLER TO COACH AT WESLEYAN | 12/5/1940 | See Source »

...Naturalism. To this central ability he brings an impressive set of spare tools. Joyce himself has scarcely greater precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry, without gasp or gesture, the whole load of daily living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edible Slice-of-Life | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...comment was forthcoming from Fesler after his visit with Cardinal athletic authorities last weekend, and he has said that the next move will have to come from Wesleyan. An official announcement of the hiring of Fesler is expected from Middletown next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLER FUTURE STILL IN DOUBT--UP TO WESLEYAN | 11/30/1940 | See Source »

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