Word: roiterated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visa. The world he writes about is the same world of which most U. S. readers feel themselves citizens, a country inhabited not by brain-fevered intellectuals but by human beings whose hearts are troubled. Klaus Hallem turned out to be a country doctor while his old classmate George Roiter was becoming one of the biggest men in Oslo, head of the university, famed throughout Europe as a humane expert on international law. Since schooldays they had been friends and rivals. Hallem was self-centered, disagreeable, fiercely envious; Roiter brilliant, unselfish, easily preeminent. Twice Roiter had saved Hallem...