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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER?Harris E. Starr?Holt ($4.00). "Exemplary biography." Sound phrase. Aged and middle-aged Yale men, sipping coffee and nursing cigars, go back to William Graham Sumner, professor at Yale of political and social science, as to a hero of their youth. They declare there was hone like him for forthrightness, wisdom, integrity.* They say the "grand manner," the strong individualism of which he was such an exemplar, is gone out of college professors in these days of alumni control, teaching unions, mass education. Survivors of Yale '83, for instance, recall how they were circularized their senior year...
...pronuniciation Sh-trin-ski, as given by TIME, is identical to the sound emitted over the telephone by the Polish Vice Consul in New York, Mr. Stalinski...
...famous Napoleonic library, containing hundreds of books?to Oxford University, or, if refused, to the British Museum; his confidential papers relating to his resignation of the Viceroyalty in India (over a feud with the then General Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener)?to the British Museum, with injunction "to exercise sound discretion as to the time and manner and degree in which they are to be made accessible to students...
...otherwise distort them. She has employed, with notable poise and richness, the formula of Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga against a thoroughly U. S. background, Chicago. Residents of that vigorous commonty will discredit their citizenship by failing to read this excellent chronicle of its childhood. Other nonreaders will miss a sound, satisfying novel...
...radios has rung the chiming voice of the swinging harp, from which one Captain C. H. Longbottom beguiles a sound like a fluid bell...