Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the squash team having had excellent success while using the University courts in the past, and since many feel that the new Hemenway was built so that harrassed graduate students might follow Dr. Bock's advice on exercise, the angry lawyers feel they have an excellent case...
...seventh year under Coach Bernie Bierman, boasted a team equal to the famed 1934 and 1935 outfits that earned the unofficial title of U.S. champion. Michigan, under its new coach, Fritz Crisler (recently lured from Princeton), displayed an unexpected renaissance after losing 22 of its 32 games in the past four years...
...while oil had seemed to be one industry that had avoided the "inventory depression" of the past year. With production in most of the mid-continent field strictly prorated, crude prices have been steady all year and crude oil stocks have been held down so much that on October 1 they were at a 15-year low of 280,852,000 bbls. But refiners, who did not see Depression II coming, have been feeling the pinch of reduced industrial demand and curtailed public consumption; their stocks of refined products now stand at phenomenal highs-fuel...
...year 1922 was a big year for modern literature. In that year appeared T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, the first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified...
...compared with Oedipus Rex (although most readers are likely to find it a good deal harder to lay down than Oedipus), but like Oedipus it is basically a horror story, and like Oedipus it unrolls forward and backward simultaneously, each new revelation of the past driving the story forward...