Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Norbert Casteret is the world's most versatile speleologist-a specialist in the science of caves. He has been fascinated by caverns, abysses and underground rivers since, in his youth, he first avidly read Jules Verne's Voyage to the Centre of the Earth. He studied under the French archeologists Cartailhac and Bergouen, under Explorer-Geologist Edouard-Alfred Martel. When he was iS, the War broke out and he went to the trenches. The life of a soldier, he says, made him physically tough and inured him to hardship...
...same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive tome; but if valuable matters are slighted, dull ones are junked. Some facts...
...subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...
...commencement of the meeting Chambers read a telegram from Thomas Mann, noted German author now in self-exile at Princeton, in which he attacked Nazi leaders. "The German people are as peace-loving as any other," the telegram read...
Seventeen Eliotmen will make the trip, together with a great horde of Elephant enthusiasts who hope to see the team score its first victory. The starting lineup is: ends Haff and Levin; tackles, A. Robinson and Keller; guards, Melia and Haddon; center, Seidman; quarter-back, Read; halfbacks, Captain Prario and Donahue; fullback, Brew...