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...Brandt, an ex-Rhodes Scholar and ex-newspaperman, has successively headed three college presses: University of Oklahoma (where he wheedled out of John Joseph Mathews his Indian study, Wah'kon-tah, the first university press book to become a Book-of-the-Month); Princeton (which he left to become, briefly, president of Oklahoma), and the University of Chicago, where he has continued to publish salable books by scholars (a recent one. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: COME DOWN, PROFESSOR | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...citizens of Piqua, Ohio (pronounced Pick-wah) who well remembered Tavernkeeper Patsy Gentile's boy Dominic as the high-school kid who used to buzz St. Boniface's Church in his Arrow Sport biplane, the Eighth's announcement of 30 planes was good enough. They solemnly petitioned President Roosevelt to let Hero Gentile come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Reach for Glory | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Donald Duck: Ah Phooooooooeeey. Wah wah wah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio and Defense | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Caledonia the Brothers Fahnestock spent a day getting ready to record songs by a particularly promising pair of natives. Finally the natives sang their piece: Oo-Wah, Oo-Wah, over & over. That was all they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Does Mr. Roosevelt really "hate wah" enough to keep us out of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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