Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...complimentary to say that a book is good if it can be read by anyone and do no harm, no better tribute could be paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
...Prof. Hillyer's followers--in fact all readers who are in touch with the meaningful currents of modern American verse will read and relish this volume...
Despite repeated despatches from Sofia itself stating that under the Bulgarian Constitution the heir to the Throne must be Bulgarian Orthodox, the articles in question actually read...
...Names make news." Last week the {allowing names made the following news: Eugene Robert Black, governor oft the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, who looks like Andy Gump, prepared to read an address to the Investment Bankers Association of America in th convention at New Orleans on "Investment Possibilities in the South." Instead he made a stirring extemporaneous speech. Excerpts: "We have been living in an automobile, a Frigidaire, a radio era and have been sitting in an atmosphere of a Corona-Corona. We cannot pay our debts and continue in that...
...folklore, a subject on which Koht is an authority. He remarked, "Tales of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, even though they may be a thousand years old are still very popular in Scandinavia. They have a peculiarity in that they need no translation to make them modern. They can be read in their original form, provided the reader has a knowledge of the language, and be easily understood, English translations have been made of them, but I am afraid some of these are poor because the translator made the mistake of using the old style of English. They would have been...