The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page 350
... less in the strug- gle within the Kremlin than in the struggle within the American Congress . THEODORE H. WHITE , Fire in the Ashes , 1953 Politics is the only profession in which a man improves with age . This is not because he grows ...
... less in the strug- gle within the Kremlin than in the struggle within the American Congress . THEODORE H. WHITE , Fire in the Ashes , 1953 Politics is the only profession in which a man improves with age . This is not because he grows ...
Page 669
... less towering intellects , including Sam Goldwyn , Emily Post , Death Valley Scotty , W. C. Fields , Liberace , Helen Hokinson , Fred Allen and Groucho Marx . The American Treasury recognizes no intellectual class distinctions . A great ...
... less towering intellects , including Sam Goldwyn , Emily Post , Death Valley Scotty , W. C. Fields , Liberace , Helen Hokinson , Fred Allen and Groucho Marx . The American Treasury recognizes no intellectual class distinctions . A great ...
Page 770
... less and less . Robert M. Hutchins , The Conflict in Education , 1953 , re- marked that " in the United States we have discovered that [ the specialist ] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less . " One of the ...
... less and less . Robert M. Hutchins , The Conflict in Education , 1953 , re- marked that " in the United States we have discovered that [ the specialist ] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less . " One of the ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
Copyright | |
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