Word: tome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced that it had offered Valachi's memoirs, entitled The Real Thing, to a dozen U.S. and European publishers. Valachi was asked to write his life's story on the chance that he might recall some forgotten tidbits of information. No luck. Rather than junk the monumental tome, federal officials decided to waive the rule against federal prisoners writing about their crime careers in the hope that Valachi's disclosures will alert the public to the syndicate's threat...
...readability was sacrificed to research. The monograph, freighted with footnotes, was triumphant, and out of the graduate schools poured a profusion of dreary doctoral theses on subjects no larger than thimbles. Legend has it that one professor, exasperated with the whole nit-picking business, wearily eyed an enormous tome that a Ph.D...
Harvard's foil fencers may surprise the polished C.C.N.Y. foil team. Besides all-Ivy Tome Musliner, Captain Rick Kolombatovich and junior Dan Isaacson are seasoned performers. Kolombatovich was second team all-Ivy last year despite his mid-season switch to epee...
...VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
...first five. The trick is if you see one, you have to see them all-all of the series' half dozen crises are mentioned and in tensified in every episode. Though the first Peyton Place was to have the same protagonists and proclivities as Metalious' peeping tome, Producer Monash insisted that the tone would be different. The novel, he says, was "a negativistic attack. Ours is a love affair with the town. The general feeling we have is of people evolving toward the light." But after 102 episodes, there has been little perceptible evolution. Last week...