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This is Lockridge's first effort, and his six years of labor have produced a gigantic and complicated penetration into The American Myth, enmeshed in a tome which numbers 1066 pages and three explanatory charts that piece out a momentous Fourth of July in an Indiana small town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Richard W. Wallace, | Title: Prospects of Capitalism Not Worth A Nickel at Widener Clearance Sale | 12/19/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Album Photo Chief Issues Cry for Aid | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Thinks Submarines Key Arm of Coming Navies | 11/19/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars Warm to Task but Houghton Cool to Costly Bible | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

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