Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov -poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer of the language, and "father of the new Russian literature"-Russian science has flourished even under the most stifling of dictatorships...
Most famous Britannica edition was the ninth, completed in 1889, with 25 volumes and 20,504 pages (v. the current Britannica's 24 volumes, 27,247 pages). Contributors included Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darwinian Thomas Henry Huxley, and Revolutionary Russian Prince Pëtr Alekseevich Kropotkin, who wrote his article on "Anarchism" while locked up in a French prison...
...humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...
Warming up verbally for his new, one-year job as consultant on poetry in English to the Library of Congress, old (84) Poet Robert Frost cosily offered his chipper views on the universe: "I've waged a lover's quarrel with the world ever since I felt old enough to woo it with dash. I was stodgy only when I was young. I never dared to be radical for fear it would make me conservative when I was old. God seems to me to be something which wants us to win. In tennis. Or poetry. Or marriage...
...clergyman and grandson of a well-known Swiss satiric poet, Düurrenmatt turned to drama after studying philosophy at the universities of Bern and Zurich. He settled in Neuchatel "because I wanted to be alone, far away from friends who would constantly call on me, hampering my work...