Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon & Schuster ($10). Of some 40 art titles published in the past month, outstanding have been: A TREASURY or AMERICAN PRINTS-Thomas Craven-Simon & Schuster ($3.95): †HAVE WE AN AMERICAN ART-Edward Alden Jewell-Longmans ($2.75); GIST OF ART-John Sloan-American Artists Group ($3.75); AN AMERICAN ARTIST'S STORY-George Biddle -Little, Brown ($4); RUBENS-Phaidon Edition-Oxford University Press...
...south from Canada, come the heaviest flights of wild duck in ten years-20% more than last year, thanks to providential June rains in the Canadian breeding grounds and the efforts of Ducks Unlimited, a popular-subscription organization that has spent a quarter of a million dollars in the past two years restoring duck-nesting marshes in Canada...
Thus passed into virtual oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...
During the past ten years men of good will, trying to escape the Left-Right dilemma, have been bravely challenging defeat, whooping up democracy, deploring dictatorship, condemning war, and agreeing that not much can be done about it all. To reflective witnesses, however, even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays...
...difficult period of experimentation is over," Malone stated, "and we are now in a position to capitalize upon the experience of the past. The present program of the Committee is based upon a frank recognition of the difficulty of inducing busy undergraduates to do outside reading, and upon the consequent necessity of making it attractive to them. Despite the intrinsic difficulties, we feel that the opportunity to explore the various aspects of American civilization has rarely been so challenging...