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Word: rather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brains. British Feminist Rebecca West once said: "Before a war military science seems a real science-like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." British Military Critic Liddell Hart replied: "Perhaps that conclusion is rather hard on astrology." The reason for Liddell Hart's cynicism is fundamentally something that neither free-lance nor professional military critics can measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

From Mexico came minor pictures by the masters, including Jean Chariot, and from Argentina and Chile a number of works lustrous with contemporaneity. Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic were represented by curiosities rather than quality, but the whole show was a sidelong stride toward the "intellectual interchange" agreed upon at the Lima Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art of the Americans | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...competition were Bill Thorn and Mac Stevens, with the slight possibility of Larry Krieger being taken along as an alternate. It has been decided pretty definitely that Walt Muther, who would be the Crimson alternate on the squad, will not go along so Krieger's chances or going are rather slim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campbell, Thorn, and Stevens Are Eli Netmen to Go Abroad | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

...impressionistic commentator, Bunde makes a pretty good score, but it is to be expected that his justice might miscarry in some instances. And notable among these latter is the case of Professor Usher who has been characterized as "neither an economist nor, in the true sense, an historian," but rather "a collector of details--a hard working, conscientious gatherer of economic facts." Usher has done an excellent job in Ec. 133 (where I happen to have heard him) in tracing the pattern of economic development, and Mr. Bunde's failure to catch even a glimmering reflection of this pattern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

Future English concentrators will find important fields tended by neophytes rather than by scholars who have already gained distinction. Aside from the injustice to students who, attracted by Harvard's name, have a right to some substance, one wonders what will happen to the relative ranking among English faculties throughout the land, of a department which loses four able men so soon after the departure of Lake, Lowes, Copeland, and Kittredge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENPINS | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

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