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Word: neveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectre of the black panther breeds over the whole tale, moving constantly in the thoughts and dreams of the men, even those who profess not to believe in its existence. However, the author never makes it clear, or even partially clear, what this symbol is supposed to mean. Does it exist only in the minds of the men who fear it, or does it represent a malignant spirit which wants to drive them out of the valley? Whatever his concept of the black panther was, Clark doesn't carry it through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmean, | Title: Clark's Third Novel: Lonelinesss, Cold, and Terror in the West | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...taken for a vastly engaging virtuoso of American prose style who is full of ideas, most of them stimulating and some of them convincing, on religion, psychology, music, letters, politics, education, the South, women, and sundry related topics. His ideas are often largely nonsensical. But they are never completely so. You may be reading through the wildest moments of a polemic against democracy, wondering if he is ever going to stop jabbering, when suddenly he does just that. Suddenly a paragraph intrudes, or a sentence, or an epigrammatic phrase, and makes you stop and think, and sticks with...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...that the water's polluted. MDC officials have been sniffing up the river in eyedroppers, and they reported yesterday that the water had never been nicer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Charlie Durakis, the freshman who never hurdled before coming to Harvard, will represent the Americans in the low hurdles, against Brooks of Cambridge and Williams of Oxford. The high hurdles will see a fight between Leonard Philips of Yale against Crimes, formally of Yale who will run for the British. He has run the event in 15:5.6. Phillips took the Eli-Crimson meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoring System Will Favor British in Track Meet | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...plot, if you can call it that, never stops Astaire from going into his effortless dance. There are only enough complications to pad the entertainment out to ninety minutes and let the dramatics fall where they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

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