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The possibility, nay the probability, of such a progenitor has thrown the entire staff of the Geology department into utter confusion. The retreat, headed by Professor Dither, has not yet begun, but the imminent final in Geology 1 this morning promises to be the scene of a scientific polemic comparable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Stuff for sturdy stomachs only, The Fight for Peace is a sardonic documenting of the worldwide toll war has taken since the War to End War took 8,538,000 lives, maimed 21,000,000. Its purpose polemic, the film studs its narrative with jaw-jutting shots of Mussolini, pose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Sentence (1), stating that young novelists, because permanent art is arduous, angle after contemporary applause, is simple in meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

"To them I say," said he, "we cannot rely on an amendment as the immediate or only answer to our present difficulties. When the time comes for action, you will find that many of those who pretend to support you will sabotage any constructive amendment which is proposed. Look at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quiet Crisis | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Ten Million Ghosts (by Sidney Kingsley; produced and directed by the author). Same day this violent polemic against the world's munitions makers opened in Manhattan last week, the League of Nations estimated that $9,295,000,000 was spent on armaments in 1935. The action of Mr. Kingsley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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