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Word: manuscript (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale University Library's manuscript collection, Babe Ruth presented a treasure: the MS. of his autobiography, The Babe Ruth Story ("as told to" Bob Considine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...little comic opera, The Duenna,* almost got lost in the shuffle. Finished in 1940, it had reached the dress rehearsal stage in Moscow when the war put a stop to it. After the war, it was put on in Leningrad and Prague, but the score was still in manuscript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Slightly Bourgeois | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress, announced that the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland would be sent back to England as a gift from Americans. Dr. Evans spent $50,000 to buy the manuscript at auction in New York in 1946, later got all but $5,000 back from anonymous donors who also wanted the script returned "as an expression of thanks to the British ... for holding off the enemies of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Last fall Eden, who wears his hair shoulder-length, practices breath control and eats only fruits, nuts and vegetables, shuffled into Los Angeles' Lincoln Theater. He had a manuscript he wanted Cole to see ("I like the gentleness with which he plays"). Then he took off for the desert to commune with Avak the Healer ("Although we needed an interpreter, we spoke the same language inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nature Boy from Brooklyn | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...have to the grader for discussion. No such provision has been maintained on January and May finals, however. If sufficiently interested, the student can enclose a posteard on which his grade is returned. In all but a few cases this is as close as he gets to his corrected manuscript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grading Exams | 4/21/1948 | See Source »

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