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Word: vavasseur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dieckmann went from Germany to France, told other scholars his theory that the Diderot manuscript was still in existence somewhere. One day a scholar casually remarked that he thought he might have seen the Dream while going through the family papers of a certain Baron Jacques Le Vavasseur, Diderot's direct descendant. Apparently, Diderot's daughter had passed on a whole batch of papers to her descendants. The family had let only two untrained amateurs take a look: it thought the less said about Diderot's escapades and radical ideas the better. Dieckmann got only a curt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dream Chaser | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...business world after college. Chipp, Press and Ross sell them blazers while they are still in school, follow up this acquaintanceship from the time they graduate till they die . . . and more often than not, a man has mortgaged his soul to the friendly tailor with the Glen Urquhart plaids, Vavasseur silks, and hand-woven Shetlands long before that day arrives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/20/1940 | See Source »

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