Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Comrades is on the face of it a lovestory, of the same type as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, but Remarque's familiar skeleton is not far under the surface. Three old comrades of the War have found each other again in Berlin, in the days just before Hitler. None of them has prospered in post-War Germany. Otto owns a small garage, Robert (the "I" of the story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto...
...subject matter into the scope of a single half-year. No course in the College could be more deserving of further attention, and few men would begrudge the extra hours spent in handling this as a full-year course. Numberless small but interesting facts could be added to the skeleton which is now presented. Some more fundamental sections of art history, notably German and Spanish Gothic architecture, medieval stained glass, and American colonial architecture now omitted entirely, could also be studied profitably...
...Screened off in one corner of the Boeing plant is the growing skeleton of an even larger four-motored bomber, all details of which are still deeply secret...
...enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body to the Irish Sea, to weight it and sink it in deep water. Hunter, a Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London's Royal College of Surgeons, next to the skeleton of a dwarf once named Caroline Crachami, who does not reach up to his kneecap...
...first move towards reform must be a change in the attitude of the Department to the skeleton in its closet. The qualities of poise and self-possession, of persuasion and logic and clear, quick thinking come from practice in public speaking, and in the long run the student will probably find them of more value than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising...