Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Who Is Authentic? They also brought back to class more news than was being printed in the daily papers. Before long, the six professionals were unashamedly cribbing from their classmates' homework. After six months, Editor Efron decided that her newshawks were ready to put out their own model newspaper...
Science & Poetry. "I have been," writes Trevelyan, "not an original but a traditional kind of historian." Unlike Arnold Toynbee, he saw no pattern in the past, evolved no sweeping philosophy of history. "Philosophy must be brought to history, it cannot be extracted from it. And I have no philosophy of...
Friendly, 59-year-old Scottie, with a nose as bulbous as one of his own gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop...
Mrs. Alkire, like many a leather-faced farmer and ginghamed housewife who thought "they could do better," looked with a jaundiced eye at the shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak...
Thousands more knock on agency doors every year, driven by their own ambitions, by unscrupulous "modeling schools" which promise to turn them into cover girls in six easy lessons, or by relentless mothers. But disillusion awaits them.