Word: poe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representatives of Harvard were included in the appointments to John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships announced recently. Harry T. Levin, lately appointed Associate Professor of English, is making a study of the technique of symbolism in American fiction, with particular reference to Poe; Hawthorne, Melville, and Henry James. Miss Tilly Edinger, Research Associate in Paleontology in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, is studying the development of teeth in the evolutionary line leading from ancestral fishes to mammals...
Only dissenting voice came via telegram. Its simple message: "NUTS." The signer: Edgar Allan Poe...
...There is a Basic book that puts over 20,000 English words into Basic words. Good books in Basic now ready for reading: The Three Signs (short stories by Hawthorne, Irving, Poe), George Bernard Shaw's Arms & The Man, the New Testament (the Old is to come), The Republic of Plato (done by Richards), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, The Outlook of Science (selections from J. B. S. Haldane's writings...
When Michigan went ahead on its own, Federal soldiers chased the shovelmen away. In 1852 Congress relented-the discovery of the fabulous iron ore reserve of the region had been made. Since then the canal has been enlarged, new locks have been added: the Weitzel Lock (1881), Poe (1896), Davis (1914), Sabin...
...Named for: Engineers General Godfrey Weitzel, General Orlando M. Poe, Colonel Charles E. L. B Davis, Louis L. Sabin, who helped build the locks...