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Dogs are all things to all men. As they are, cur and hound, bitch and pup, Tray and Nero, the names that men apply to them betray the way that men think of them. No name for a dog carries less than the nasty meaning unconsciously given fragrant words like...
We question meaning of phrase "second-class writer" applied to H. G. Wells's literary reputation, by your reviewer, Jan. 23, p. 51. Does he mean second-class literary artist-or simply second-class novelist?
Finally, it must be remembered that a valuable function of the Classics is the formation of a good English style; a man who can think and write accurately in Greek will not be sloppy in his English. For at the base of good style lies sure knowledge of the meaning...
"Marxism is not Socialism!" Herr Hitler has absurdly postulated. "The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shant take Socialism away from the Socialists."
* Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), unlearned Dutch merchant's clerk, was first man to recognize bacteria and protozoa with a microscope. But not until Louis Pasteur did anyone explain the meaning of Leeuwenhoek's "little animals." Last year Clifford Dobell, English protistologist (student of unicellular organisms), nephew of...