Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...whole arid field of current U.S. literary criticism, few critics have successfully brought their acres to cultivation; most of the yield consists either of dried academic pods or fluttery reviewing that could thrive nearly as well on book jackets. Critic Edmund Wilson's small crop of evaluations (Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow) is the hardiest, the most varied and the one with the best chance of preservation. His new book, Classics and Commercials, is made up entirely of pieces written over the past ten years. No U.S. critic now writing could gather...
...time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
Modern Times. In Dayton, a housewife, equipped with field glasses, hired the Miami Valley Flying Service to circle over Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where her husband works, because "I want to find out where he goes after he leaves the field and before he comes home...
Tight Harvard defensive play and a spectacular last-minute save by goalie Dick Craven gave the Crimson booters a 0 to 0 tie against Brown on the Business School Field Saturday, after a fast and rugged Bruin halfback line had throttled Coach Bruce Munro's forward line all afternoon...
...Sherwood's three goals led the Mill Street field hockey team to a 4 to 0 win over Wheelock College in the fall finale at Buckingham Park yesterday. Nick Arundel scored the fourth goal...