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Word: nostalgia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Grew churned up waves of nostalgia when he addressed the quiet celebrants as President of their Alumni Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Confetti | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind" at the Kirkland House party. He pictured himself in an insular jungle, and it almost seemed that that were real and Harvard the daydream. But he was glad that he was too busy looking forward to the approaching service to let nostalgia get the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/16/1942 | See Source »

...many British ears the peacetime Sunday pealing brought nostalgia to temper the rejoicing. No clamor came from some 1,200 parish churches, either because their old grey stones had collapsed under bombs or because partial damage had left the bells insecure in the belfries. The famed bells of St. Mary-le-Bow in London's Cheapside were silent. Ten of the twelve had crashed from the 90-ft. belfry ceiling when the church was bombed (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Peacetime Clamor | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Board has complained that many of the portraits available are decades old, but there are none that show no resemblance, and a majority of them are recent. In any case, the purpose of the Album is not decoration, but service as an aid to nostalgia. William Snower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...easily and quickly uncrowned. Obscurity, still one of them, reigns supreme in Phemister's three love sonnets. Musically reminiscent of Donne, they lack Donne's fine-grained intensity. In "Furlough" Crockett tries with some success to fit a difficult French verse form to a mood of lyric nostalgia, but the same attempt in "Embarkation" does not come off as well. Both, however, are considerable improvements on his earlier work. Harrison's "The Trap" is a rather conventional cry of despair in the Eliot tradition...

Author: By R. S. F., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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