Word: scopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this,* British newspaper readers had scant opportunity to judge or obtain pertinent facts last week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly on the part of English juries, to regard newspaper faults...
Finally a profit was announced of $300 on the 1936 handbook by Danser. He outlined plans for the book next year and mentioned the possibility of increasing the size and scope of the book...
...South is an interesting and entertaining accomplishment. The reviewer cannot call it the best novel yet written on the Civil War because he remembers. "The Red Badge of Courage" and Evelyn Scott's "The Wave," "Gone With the Wind" is not a "deep" book; its value lies in the scope of its narrative and in its extraordinary fine re-creation of an atmosphere. Despite that it is set in times of great historic significance it is a book of persons rather than of events...
...that it is not a gross exaggeration of the situation which then existed. The new spirit moving within the educational institutions of this country had not become evident to those outside the academic walls. Another decade was to pass before a university was opened in Baltimore, national in its scope, and proclaiming boldly that "all departments of learning should be promoted" . . . "and that the glory of the University should rest upon the character of the teachers and scholars . . . and not upon their number nor upon the buildings constructed for their...
...notch little nautical encyclopedia called Ships and the Sea, A Cruising Companion, written by Pay Lieutenant E. C. Talbot-Booth of the Royal Naval Reserve.* A fat little book, it has 750 pages, over 1,000 illustrations. Though compiled from a British point of view, it is international in scope, universal in interest...