Word: tome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most ominous element on the periodical waste paper counter was the tome of the B. J. Field titled "The Prospects of American Capitalism" which appeared to be worth only a nickel, with no takers at closing time...
Photographers, informal or otherwise, are as honey to the eyes of Alfred M. Weisberg '47, photographic big-wig of the 1947-48 Album. According to Weisberg, he is at present carrying alone the pictorial burden of the massive tome...
Such are the implications of Morison's new book, "The Battle of the Atlantic," volume one of a 13-tome history of the U.S. Navy's role in World War II. This pre-declaration-of-war phase was the battle of the convoy versus the undersea wolf, and Morison tells how close the wolves came to starving out their English prey...
...copies in this country, conservative estimates of its value hover around $150,000. The second most valuable tome, also in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, apparently does not rate the same consideration...
...Irwin Edman says wistfully, and perhaps a little apologetically: "Some day, if I can overcome a sense of humor and a sense of doubt, I shall try to write such a systematic tome as professional philosophers require, or as is expected of a professional thinker by the general public." He is obviously in no hurry...