Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' archaic Mignon, pretty, dark-haired Rise Stevens showed herself to be much more than a run-of-the-mill operatic debutante, sang with mature taste and acted her part with full-blown operatic temperament. For her, even the morosest critic prophesied an expansive future...
...world, Limited Editions books include such native volumes as The Psalms of David, being printed in Palestine, Oedipus Rex, being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
There is in every university a department of education where men, already through the mill, strive to learn methods of imparting their knowledge to those who do not have it, but there is no institution or department I know of designed for letting students learn how and why they learn...
...depression he gets control of a steel mill, ruins a rich rival who once snubbed him. But he neglects his wife, his only daughter dies, a victim of his money-mania, his son hates him, turns poet, loves the daughter of MacTay's ruined rival. And when MacTay dies on the eve of the World War, having just completed a vast merger, his wife is quickly comforted by the thought that death is a kindlier rival than coal mines and steel mills...
...Widener Library entails a certain amount of architectural adjustment. At the present time the cramped space of the Delivery Room and the small size of the delivery desk result in an inordinate amount of confusion and delay; there is rarely enough room to sit down, and the crowds that mill around the desk interfere with those who are trying either to file slips or withdraw books. These present difficulties could be eliminated by breaking down the wall between the present Bibliographical Reference Room and the Delivery Working Room, making one room of the two. The entire delivery desk could then...