Word: novum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Humorist Frank Sullivan, lists of the "Greatest Books" are apt to sound phony and pedantic. Few people, he believes, would read Bacon's Novum Organum, for example, unless they had the latest Agatha Christie concealed inside. Last week Sullivan thought he had discovered a more honest list: the books niched so far this year by students at upstate New York's Union College...