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Word: textbookish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time out as an infantry lieutenant during World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faith and Democracy | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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