Word: yet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book on American history (Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy), made a six-month tour of U.S. campuses* to find out. There were, he admitted, a few things that pleased him, such as the exhaustive approach to Russian studies (not matched in Britain) of Columbia University's Russian Institute. Yet on the whole, he reported in the current issue of Britain's Universities Quarterly, U.S. higher education offers more to be pitied than copied...
...gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...
...from the great days of the rush. Forty-Niners is a new edition of what is now almost a classic work of research by Author Hulbert into the daily life of those who traveled overland. Together they give an unforgettable impression of a mighty movement of people, unorganized and yet queerly efficient, undisciplined and yet tenacious, unbeatable, ignorant, misled, unprepared, unaided, persisting despite almost every obstacle...
Word at the Forks. A strange unreality lies over the world visualized in these two books. Much of the Overland Trail had been well traveled long before these emigrants started, yet they still had the hardships of pioneers. The Indians were like stage Indians, no longer menacing, but certainly not safe. At the forks in the road there were travelers with word of how much better some other route was or could be, and at the river crossings there always seemed to be someone to overcharge them for ferrying each wagon and each mule...
...result is a study of people responding to something they do not quite believe in, arming themselves against imaginary dangers, moving forward irresistibly to a titanic disappointment, and yet overcoming, on the way, so many hardships that their effort became heroic in spite of themselves...