Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans, of course, face a far worse problem. Mr. Dulles didn't have much to say in his campaign, and what he did say was managed at least as badly as Dewey's fiasco last year. The GOP will have to come up with a new program and new managers if it hopes to get back into power at all. It will have to stop harping on the welfare state, which is evidently a much overrated bugaboo. It will have to turn up some candidates whose virtues extend farther than smooth, untroubled faces and innocuous minds...
...soldier's discovery that there's no solace for the sterile soul in drink, dames, or solace for the other, a sort of love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey a delicate mood, I think, by means of a "Toy Lady" and the change of seasons...
...would be nice to see the Advocate poets become really experimental, if that's where their hearts are; but it would be even better if they could venture out into the light and find something to say in verse...
...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...
Yale in the only other American university which has a Gutenberg Bible but Harvard officials say that the New Haven copy is not in "quite as fine condition" as the one here. At its last public sale, before Yale was given the copy, that Gutenberg Bible brought...