Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superior composition teacher, and because he had a vigorous and stimulating viewpoint on contemporary American literature, not for his considerable research work. Having terminated his connection with the analytical "Saturday Review of Literature," Bernard De Voto may be surprised to learn of strong undergraduate sentiment in favor of his return. This man deserves the chance to continue the teaching work he left unfinished at Harvard...
...students; while research neglects teaching in favor of the advancement of knowledge, teaching, on the contrary, cannot ignore its obvious function. To the student, legendary teaching is the best type, and Bernard De Voto its eminent representative. What greater impulse can there be to justify the demand for his return...
...with his own. For three months Mr. Hopkins has been trying to recover from the physical effects of his appalling responsibility. Last week, reports from Florida, where he relieved the tedium of his convalescence with visits to the Hialeah race track, indicated that he would soon be ready to return to Washington...
...late Henry Miller were starred. A book about Miller† published this week tells of his going on tour with the play to Pittsburgh. Before its Manhattan triumph, The Great Divide had been tried out and was panned by critics in Pittsburgh, and Miller was very touchy, about his return engagement there. When, on the first night, people started walking out on his big scene, Miller marched angrily to the footlights, shouted "Are you petty enough to be influenced by spiteful opinions in the local press?" Immediately more people started walking out. "Sit down," Miller thundered...
...below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While she was tied up in Manhattan last week a fresh fire broke out at 3:15 a. m., a few hours before her return-trip sailing. It smoldered for three hours, did an estimated $10,000 damage to the cabin lounge. Aboard were 75 passengers, some of whom rushed on deck in night clothes. The line then announced that first-class passengers would have to go tourist or transfer to other vessels...