Word: review
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is Better Learning Through Current Materials (Stanford University Press, $3), written by members of the California Council on Improvement of Instruction and edited by Lucien Kinney and Katharine Dresden. (The Saturday Review of Literature not long ago listed it as one of the important educational books...
...years in the presidency, Harry S. Truman, onetime Field Artillery captain, had twice reviewed units of both the Navy and the Air Force. But the Army, he jokingly concluded, remained "rather timid, and remembering that I was a battery commander, has always felt a little backward about asking me to look at a review ..." Finally he picked up his telephone and told Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray that he wanted to watch the ground forces do their stuff...
...second show, the band went back to the sweet and swoony, and it was lucky they did. The Chicago Herald & Examiner's redoubtable Critic Ashton Stevens covered the performance, closed his review with the line that, for dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation...
Thirdly, "314" is planned as a unifying force within the College. It will document each senior's career, and further, it hopes to serve as a review and evaluation of each year for every undergraduate. By so doing it seeks to elicit undergraduate support and interest as a secondary effect and thus again add to the strength of its staff...
...side, he began translating Rabelais, went to France in 1926 for a look at the Rabelais country and stayed until 1933. While in Europe he published his Rabelais, plus some translations of Pirandello and Jean Cocteau, and edited the literary quarterly New Review...