Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was only the next year, in the fall of 1896 that there appeared in the catalogue any evidence that there was a literature in the United States. In that year, there is a notation at the end of the English section that graduates might engage in "special study" on...
But there was a professor at Harvard with a straw-colored beard, who stalked through the Yard with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He--Barrett Wendell-- put an end to the university's avoidance of a national literature. His "special study" graduate course remained stubbornly alone in the catalogue...
Loving You (Paramount) is an authorized pseudo biography of the professional career of Elvis Presley. The only substantial departure from fact is that the movie's Deke Rivers is a clean-living Texas orphan, whereas Elvis is actually a clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop...
Wrote a legal historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too...
E.J. Wendell the Harvard steward, moved by the flowing eloquence,, burbled, "We were met in the handsomest spirit and lost fairly on our merits and demerits."