… Czechoslovakia and its first president. When T. G. Masaryk died in 1937 he was perhaps the best-loved European. His … and convinced Woodrow Wilson, who in his Fourteen Points had called only for autonomy for the peoples of … a quarrel between Karel Capek and 1920’s America. In May 1926, after Capek had been reported as speaking out against …
… sent it to the main office 60 miles away with a push of a computer button. “It’s an awful thing,” Ed said, leaning … Inside the prosecutor tapped his half-glasses and studied me. I knew he wanted to say something sharp so I turned … and the defendant’s. I glanced above the judge at the gold points on the wall. Then I heard Lila step down from the …
… personality have been examined thoroughly by a number of competent historians, yet we still have little inkling of … only Child’s keen interest in the abolition movement but also her ideas concerning labor, marriage, temperance, … alone push on further. This book gives a professional soldier’s analysis of the Sino-Japanese War, and a useful …
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… on the ocean floor, the scientist pauses a moment and comes face to face with death in the form of a 150-foot-tall … a force as destructive as the atomic bomb, chooses to die alongside Godzilla rather than risk letting his Oxygen … A mysterious sea monster sinking a ship? Yes, but it was also an unmistakable reference to The Lucky Dragon , a tuna …
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… night was just as well suited to a Browns playoff game, complete with hordes of enthusiasts nearly tailgating … Obama’s palms–she didn’t do enough. Just after making a compelling and detailed case for her own universal health … she and her supporters tout–distinguished her. But she also made herself look silly, fretting over other details, …
… which he examines; and he knows the sum of his best work comes only to the pedagogy of elucidation and appreciation . … and critics such as Yvor Winters and Malcolm Cowley. I also said that some of the minority voices, including … compass of the space involved. Monroe Spears was in the audience on the memorable occasion when Allen Tate presented …