Search Details

Word: ramblinge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Wanted: Freedom. Last week, as he stepped up to receive the Passano award in Baltimore's historic Osler Hall of Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Ernest Goodpasture saw an opportunity to expound some theories about research developed in the years on the "Endless Frontier." In a philosophic, rambling and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Egg & He | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry, Clumsy Man | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

The Smoking Gospel. Drums under the Windows is the third volume of Playwright O'Casey's autobiography (preceding volumes: I Knock at the Door, Pictures in the Hallway). Rambling, rhapsodic, episodic, it is written sometimes in straightaway English, sometimes in lyrical doubletalk like that of the earlier James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor, Dear, Dead Men | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Besides this quiet library there is no other place about his Belmont home that is like a scholar's retreat. Professor McIlwain and his family share the rambling, three-story house with his "houn" pack--three cocker spaniels and a German shepherd. Lizzie, the shepherd, is a rather lethargic creature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/4/1946 | See Source »

This House Against This House is a pretentious title for Mr. Sheean's mixture as before: part tract, part treatise, part I-was-right-there testimony. The ingredients are not up to prewar quality. Journalist-Lecturer Sheean (he returned to civilian life late in 1944) opens with a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War & Mr. Sheean | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 214 | 215 | 216 | 217 | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | Next