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Word: nineteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIARY SHOWS THAT HARVARD MEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO SAME AS TODAY | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

...widely known in Europe for his numerous essays and monographs on nineteenth-century Russian literature, particularly on his specialty, Pushkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waclaw Lednicki, Visiting Lecturer on Russian Literature, Twice Evaded Conquering Germans | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

Besides some advanced Russian instruction. Lednicki will teach Slavic 8 (Russian Novelists) and Slavic 110 (Pushkin), both second semester half-courses, and will give occasional lectures in Slavic 1 (Introduction to Russian Literature and Culture). Most of these lectures will probably be on the nineteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waclaw Lednicki, Visiting Lecturer on Russian Literature, Twice Evaded Conquering Germans | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...School Days" is the latest of Gene Towne's dramatizations of those well-read yarns that are an integral part of the education of every child who ever saw the inside of a public library. Graduates of prep school, "select" or otherwise, will see in this account of early nineteenth century Rugby the origins of those mysterious forms and rituals which give the prep schools today their distinctive aroma. Everyone will see a fine story, magnificently acted, effectively produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

When he returns he will be in charge of French 7, Romanticism and Realism in Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Until his return the course will be conducted by Marcel Francon, associate professor of Romance Languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR MORIZE STILL IN EUROPE | 9/26/1940 | See Source »

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