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...many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daybreak | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...been hard for the public to understand this because some of the central issues in the case turn on important but technical principles of the law of evidence, while the material to, which these principles must be applied is of a kind to arouse strong prejudices which overwhelm the judgment...

Author: By John DICKINSON Ll.b., | Title: Orient Express -- Sacco Vanzetti | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WESTERN PROPHET | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

...circumnavigates the globe at will. So do radio, millionaires, white whales, tramps, salesmen, sometimes, U. S. Army fliers. To organize a college, enroll a student body of 450, put it on a ship and send it through the seven seas is another matter. The mind is willing but obstacles overwhelm. In 1924, New York University attempted it, bowed to "unforeseen difficulties," postponed it a year. Last week, "the detail work" caused postponement for another year. This announcement followed upon a statement, a fortnight ago, from Dean James E. Lough, author and sponsor of "Around the World College" (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whetstone | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...love and hope attended, joy whose raptures overwhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beethoven's Ninth | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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