Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of promotions to the existing number of vacancies in the associate professor rank, the memorandum argues that the Administration "computed the vacancies which would arise in the next ten years, and agreed that the Departments should enter their assistant professors in competition for them now. Obviously this put the present assistant professors in a favored position...
...fact, both scouts related that Chicago in unimpressive scoring games put on a passing offense that will be hard to stop. Harvard's pass defense Saturday was decidedly weak, and the team will undoubtedly be drilled on that phase this week...
...Critic Mencken, whose ability to write at a canter while thinking at a trot made him a popular literary spectacle, first published his ambitious philological work, The American Language. Weaver, a young journalist who read it enthusiastically, put it to the proof. He sent Mencken, then editing the Smart Set magazine, a piece entitled Elegie Americaine. Excerpt...
...Champion. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born a native-daughter of Maine, but she early began to crow like a child of the universe. At 19 she had already written Renascence, a long poem on cosmic possibilities that put contemporary poetry-scouts in a dither of great expectations. When Millay settled down in Greenwich Village, after graduating from Vassar in 1917, she was widely accepted by literary professionals as the most fascinating prodigy in America...
...general public food for self-pity. The countrified verse of Maine-coast-man Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet, his audience for being good listeners, poetry...