Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fischelis captured a second prize last year with an excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again, the "Letter to Foxhall Edwards." Bingham was a finalist in the 1947 contest...
Soul & Body. High point of The Apostolic Fathers is the "Letter to Diognetus." Written in the form of a letter to a pagan to describe "this new group or institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom...
...standpoint, this display is designed to call attention to TIME, to our Music department and to our advertising pages. It is a quiz consisting of 24 enlargements of TIME covers, with the cover portrait replaced by famous composers from Bach to Gershwin. Attached to each cover poster is an excerpt from a story in TIME'S Music department-but omitting the composer's name. With the excerpt as a clue, passers-by are asked to pause at department store windows, read the quiz questions and guess the names of the composers. The correct answers are posted...
Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...Browns practice only three times a week, but spend a lot of time in Teacher Brown's classroom. "I talk to them exactly as I lectured college students [at Ohio State University] and I expect them to respond as students." An excerpt from the notebook of Quarterback Cliff Lewis: "Defense is mainly desire-the will to get this thing over with is the only thing that can end it. Tackling will win or lose a game. Gang them viciously...