Word: press
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just what he meant by that he did not explain. His statement for the printed press was handed out?and mailed broadcast to smalltown editors throughout the land?by his Manhattan office. "Railroaded to jail. . . . Sins I have not committed. . . . A man of honor and integrity," were some of the things it said. Also...
...have had brought to my notice an issue of your paper containing an interview with Dr. C. N. Greenough, in which he seems to think that I have, in my annual report, which was somewhat widely reported in the press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university colleges. He rightly maintains that the new "houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than...
...award was a relief. For at least a decade even the Swedish press has been asking. "Why not Mann?" In 1925, after his name had been most prominently mentioned, the Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw. Last week's amends were handsome. This year the prizes bequeathed by the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, are larger than ever before. Thomas Mann will...
Through the saga of the Buddenbrooks clatters the Manns' ancient family coach. Their medievally faithful servant, Ida Jungmann, tended Thomas. He published Buddenbrooks in 1901, the year of the first Nobel Prize, which he did not win. For almost three decades Buddenbrooks has been constantly in press, still sells in Germany at the rate of 4,000 copies yearly, was brought out in the U. S. by Knopf...
...afternoon and all the next day the University showed off. Induction evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted...