Word: willa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still." Returning to the office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great ideas" on their desks. McClure published the first magazine articles on X ray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine and twilight sleep; he discovered Willa Gather, helped popularize William Dean Howells and Joel Chandler Harris, introduced Stevenson, Kipling and A. Conan Doyle to their first big U.S. audiences...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
Paul D. Bartlett will be the new Erving Professor of Chemistry, succeeding Arthur B. Lamb. The four new full professors will be: George Wald, professor of Biology; Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English; Willa'd Van O. Quine, professor of Philosophy; and Heinrich Schneider, professor of German...
...Willa Gather died, and readers recognized the passing of a true artist. Theodore Dreiser's final novel provided reminiscent readers with more of the honest pulp into which that slow, bewildered mill of meditation converted the tough timber of life. Booth Tarkington's last unfinished story faintly echoed the springtime tones that he caught from young middle-class voices in another...
...Willa Gather fictionized his life in Death Comes for the Archbishop...