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… would heartily endorse the order I received in 1918 from my commanding officer: “See what those damned Frogs are doing, … Poincare, Clemenceau, Briand, Charles Maurras, Herriot, Daladier, Tardieu, Louis Marin, and Leon Blum were strictly … foolish as logic can be. France has already, and on vital points, accepted a thorough revision of the Versailles …
Essays
… the fishing boats. By summer’s end I was determined to become a paleontologist. Little did I know that … But, of course, there are those sticking points: Darwin (or so the cartoon version of him goes) … so today. But I am no historian—rather just a simple soldier on the fields of evolution. Lots of my friends have …
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… later included in his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Complete Poems (Harcourt Brace, 1950). In a letter dated October 11, 1927, Sandburg commended Wilson for the “proud strength” and “Jeffersonian …
… she had to lift herself on tip-toe, her round, bare heels coming out of her shoes, to reach his lips. Hettie was … her eyes, walked over to the full length mirror. She studied herself close up. Her hair sticky from the salt in the … not just across the ocean but around the world. After a false start in Oakland, not a month before—the plane did a …
… whole truth and nothing but the truth. Yet, as John Seelye points out, embellished autobiographies are a great American … graduate student.” While Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. began his studies of Alfred Tennyson as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in the … ONE WEST RANGE, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 22903 122-126 By Staige D. Blackford …
Fiction
… glimmered behind the glass. The man, who we’d soon come to know as Manager Ma, was directing us inside and … “You don’t want to talk to me?” “No, I do. I do.” “A horse died today.” “What? Is that why you’re so sad?” “No. It … there were bamboo shoots that had been sharpened to fine points and strung vertically along the top. To prevent …