Word: historians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonesome for the sight of water that he started riding a ferry back and forth across the Ohio River "just to remember what it felt like." After his discharge, Albion traveled via Harvard to the Admiralty in London, where he turned out a Ph.D thesis for another naval historian, Professor Samuel Eliot Morison...
...write like those of the present. Many dates, names and places will mean little then, and many historical events nothing. This biographer of the future in the present rambles and rapturizes, leaves out everything a contemporary would regard as essential information and is, by current standards, as dull as Historian Robert Sherwood might have seemed to Suetonius...
Joseph might conceivably have said. But sardonic Author Hesse, casting himself as the historian of the future, is not interested in making the history of the present as plain as all that. He leaves the reader to guess just what did happen to Joseph...
...chance to show his cantata, Big Spring, to a visiting musician who was conducting a choral program for the prisoners. The visitor thought it was good, took it to a Nashville radio musician who declared it "definitely better than good." Grandstaff mailed off a copy to Big Spring Druggist-Historian Shine Philips...
Assistant Professor Margaret Clapp had deep brown eyes and dark wavy hair. In her bright red dress, she seemed too slim and pretty to be a historian of note. As she lectured, she spoke softly, seldom moved her hands except to turn the note cards in front of her. As is the custom at Brooklyn, the students constantly interrupted her with questions. Sometimes Professor Clapp answered quickly, sometimes led a lively discussion. Often she broke into a broad, dimpled smile...