Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court sustained 4 to 4 (a tie upholds the lower court) New York State's right to ban Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County as obscene, but only after several copies of the book, supplied for the justices' reading, disappeared...
...MIRACULOUS BIRTH OF LANGUAGE (256 pp.)-Richard A. Wilson-Philosophical Library...
Evolution and English. "Imagine my delight," said Shaw when he received an inscribed first edition of Professor Wilson's rather heady treatise. Wilson, before getting down to the origins and philosophy of languages, had rehearsed the old controversy of natural selection v. creative evolution, the better to drub the Darwinians. Full of youthful enthusiasm, 91-year-old Shaw sat down to write a 36-page introduction for a new edition of Professor Wilson's study in which he proves, if nothing else, that he can still write the liveliest prose of any man alive. He takes the reader...
...Wilson Dropped...
From the Fall of '12 to the Spring of 1916 isolationist sentiment set in at the College. A Spring poll gave Roosevelt 660 votes to Wilson's 591 and Hughes' 348. When T. R. did not run, Hughes was the beneficiary, piling up 1140 tallies in November to 627 for Wilson. Harvard was further out of line with national sentiment than the Eastern colleges, which gave Hughes an average of only 10 votes to 9 for Wilson...