Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completing last week their autumn program which included the publishing of more than 30 books, the Harvard University Press will issue no more books until next year. Seven of the books published this Fall are especially worth noting, according to David T. Pottinger '06, associate director of the Press. They are as follows...
...meantime Germany was able by the Rhine coup and skillful diplomatic maneuvering to form a complete blockade of France in the West. With plants able to turn out airplanes seven times faster than British or French factories they built up a force capable of humiliating the republic on their borders...
...attention of "the medical profession and the people of America." On a visit to it he had found 27 patients using ten three-quarter beds (two resting and one waiting his turn), and men and women suffering from tuberculosis and other contagious diseases placed near children of six and seven years...
...just babes in the woods," remarked Robert Ralph Young seven months ago when he and two other inconspicuous capitalists suddenly loomed as financial giants by buying control of Alleghany Corp., holding company for the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, May 3 et seq.). Since then a bitter autumn has swept bleakly through the financial forest. Last week it became known that the Babes in the Woods had also felt the chill wind. With no cocktails and canapes for the press such as accompanied the original Alleghany sale, it was revealed in a routine...
...result was that U. S. readers missed some excellent fiction and were taken by surprise when Roger Martin du Gard won the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, which usually amounts to around $40,000, announced fortnight ago. In France seven of the projected ten novels of the cycle have been published, carrying the story to the outbreak of the War. Although they centre around the wealthy Thibault family, they have little in common with the long, naturalistic family chronicles, of which Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is the prime example, that have become familiar to U. S. readers...