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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Method. Joyce's idea in Finnegans Wake is not new. More than a hundred years ago, when Nathaniel Hawthorne was living in Salem, he jotted in his notebook an idea for a story: "To write a dream which shall resemble the real course of a dream, with all its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Joyce left Ireland ("the old sow that eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Europe in 1920 was still a shell-shocked continent in a state of suspended war. It was impossible to travel in most directions without traveling through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

The Freshman baseball team came through with a 5 to 4 win over the highly-touted Holy Cross first year men Saturday afternoon. Four runs in the big second frame enabled the Crimson to score their first victory.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Nine Beats Holy Cross | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

The Taxpayers' Association has in no way objected to this bill; in fact it has voted for the plan all along. Certain members of the Harvard faculty have been active on this issue. But the main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AS YE SOW | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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