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...Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was one of the busiest mathematical dons Oxford had ever known, but he was much too cranky to want to be well known. Letters addressed to him under his pen name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Stone Days | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Life I Give." Tennessee's Percy Priest rushed to Roberts' side and fashioned a tourniquet from his necktie and fountain pen. Representatives Walter Judd and Arthur Miller, physicians, gave first aid to Bentley, before the Capitol's medical staff reached the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITOL: Puerto Rico Is Not Free | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...plane, then describes the movements and feelings of individual soldiers as if he himself had jumped off for both sides. In Moscow, the Russian confusion is described with authority. For Plievier, an old-line Communist, had been in Russia himself since 1933, served Stalin throughout the war with his pen and on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slaughter on the Plains | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...will dread what they call 'essay exams' ... A quiz of ten questions requiring answers averaging 50 words apiece is feared; a major examination question, calling for several pages of answer, is a pure horror. The reason for this is clear in their contorted faces as they put pen to paper . . . They are semiliterate in a sense . . . they can read, but they cannot write. They cannot spell, punctuation is quite beyond them, the mere formation of a written word troubles them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Last Rampart | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...will undoubtedly be highly organized expeditions with full staffs, others the intensive researches of single scholars. But all will be helping to push forward the frontiers of anthropological knowledge. To this goal of a better Understanding of man and his ways, the anthropologist is dedicated, whether he works with pen or pick-axe.The Mount Carmel Skull...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Peabody Museum: Lures for Laymen, Nerve-Centre for the Anthropologist | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

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