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...subject and take that course when he gives it; do it often enough and you'll have an education. What happens when a fine lecturer with loving knowledge of his specialty teaches that very specialty is illustrated by Frederick Merk, his watch, his pointer, and his History of the Westward Movement. Implacable enemy of the land speculator, chronicler of lusty American frontier democracy, the slight, earnest Professor is considered by many to have assumed the mantle of the late F. J. Turner as leading historian of the American West...
...came to Harvard in 1918, found Turner here and worked in his seminar. In 1921 he began to teach what is now History 62, sharing it with his older colleague. Along with teaching the first half of Histoy 5 and writing books and papers on details of the westward expansion, this course has been Professor Merk's primary interest ever since...
...check Russian encroachments provoked shivers of Austrian fear that Russia might take offense. Thus reports that Gruber planned to negotiate an Austro-Italian customs union, as a first step toward further entangling alliances with the West, caused a political panic which subsided only slightly when Gruber publicly repudiated extreme Westward orientation and came out for a middle course...
...mixture, which is 50% whole protein, was fed to 92,000 liberated G.I.s, of whom 40% were suffering from severe malnutrition, and another 40% were undernourished. Only eight died (a few others were killed by kindness when sympathetic soldiers and civilians threw them indigestible foods as they rode westward from Germany). Wounded and post-operative patients, fed this same bland mixture, were up & about in a third less time than had been customary. Pollack's prediction: the new diet will end doctors' traditional tolerance for patients who dawdle over their convalescence. Furthermore, adds he optimistically, it tastes wonderful...
...rune stone-so called because the inscription is in one of the ancient Scandinavian runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...