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He spent the summer reading and rereading James T. Farrell's “ Studs Lonigan ,” John Steinbeck ’ s “ Grapes of Wrath ” and John Dos Passos ’ s “ U. S. A .,” and he began, or so he claimed, to set himself a daily quota of 3, 000 words of his own, on the theory that this was the way to get bad writing out of his system.
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The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.
Between 1840 and 1844, Anne spent around five weeks each summer at the resort, and loved the place.
He spent the summer of 1967, the summer before his senior year, interning for Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.
For most of the first fifteen years of her life, Beatrix spent summer holidays at Dalguise, an estate on the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland.
After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.
He spent the summer of that year touring Essex and Somerset on a bicycle, explaining the Act at public meetings.
He spent the provincial command year summer 57 to summer 56 BC in Bithynia on the staff of the commander Gaius Memmius.
In June 1807 Thompson crossed the Rocky Mountains and spent the summer surveying the Columbia basin and continuing to survey the area over the next few seasons.
His childhood was spent in Swansea, with summer trips to Carmarthenshire to visit Fernhill, a dairy farm owned by his maternal aunt, Ann Jones, the memory of which is used for the 1945 lyrical poem " Fern Hill ".
Allen spent much of the summer of 1774 writing a " pamphlet " entitled A Brief Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of New York Relative to Their Obtaining the Jurisdiction of that Large District of Land to the Westward of the Connecticut River.
Blair and his sister Avril spent the summer holidays making the house habitable while he also worked on Burmese Days.
He spent the summer of 1866 at the University of Göttingen, then and later a center for mathematical research.
He spent some time in Frankfurt an der Oder before returning to Sorau in the summer.
Late in the summer of 388 he was back in Israel, and spent the remainder of his life in a hermit's cell near Bethlehem, surrounded by a few friends, both men and women ( including Paula and Eustochium ), to whom he acted as priestly guide and teacher.
Still nominally serving in the senate, Davis spent the summer of 1858 in Portland, Maine.
During the summer of 1995, Atta spent three months with co-students Volker Hauth and Ralph Bodenstein in Cairo, on a grant from the Carl Duisberg Society.
They spent the spring and summer rehearsing at a house in Boyn Hill Road, Maidenhead.
Stephen then spent the summer attacking some of the new Angevin castles built the previous year, including Cirencester, Bampton and Wareham.
Jefferson believed his gubernatorial term had expired in June, and he spent much of the summer with his family at Poplar Forest.
He spent the summer break in 1915 working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as an electrical inspector.
He returned to Hawkshead for his first two summer holidays, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous for the beauty of their landscape.
Except for his customary summer vacations in the Adirondacks ( at Keene Valley, New York ) and later at the White Mountains ( in Intervale, New Hampshire ), his sojourn in Europe in 1866-9 was almost the only time that Gibbs ever spent outside of New Haven.
Over the next four years, Stravinsky and his family lived in Russia during the summer months and spent each winter in Switzerland, which became a second home to them.
spent and reading
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
He spent time reading and rereading both the Old and the New Testaments.
However, he relates in his Memoirs that a considerable part of his time was spent in reading Greek and Latin comedies.
She was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic.
An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children ’ s magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay, George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper.
In Burma, Orwell had acquired a reputation as an outsider — he spent much of his time alone, reading or pursuing non-pukka activities, such as attending the churches of the Karen ethnic group.
Shy in his youth, he spent much of his time at home reading, but from grammar school through college, he played a prominent part in several school newspapers and magazines.
Given the repeated failures and frustrations of workers ' revolutions and movements, Marx also sought to understand capitalism, and spent a great deal of time in the reading room of the British Museum studying and reflecting on the works of political economists and on economic data.
Deciding to undertake his studies independently, he spent much time in the newly opened public library at Changsha, reading the core works of classical liberalism such as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, as well as the works of western scientists and philosophers like Charles Darwin, J. S.
In examining the origins of the monastic cloister, Walter Horn found that " as a manorial entity the Carolingian monastery ... differed little from the fabric of a feudal estate, save that the corporate community of men for whose sustenance this organization was maintained consisted of monks who served God in chant and spent much of their time in reading and writing.
He spent long hours reading books in the prison library.
Spengler spent his final years in Munich, listening to Beethoven, reading Molière and Shakespeare, buying several thousand books, and collecting ancient Turkish, Persian and Hindu weapons.
In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.
Guthrie, then 18, was reluctant to attend high school classes in Pampa and spent much time learning songs by busking on the streets and reading in the library at Pampa's city hall.
He spent much of his later life trying to prove, by close textual reading, that Christ had not been crucified but stoned to death.
Instead of attending lectures, he spent his student years reading the works of Gauss and Jacobi — the consequence of this being he failed his examinations.
He also spent time reading classic literature.
In his den, which he called his " Shangri-La ", he spent his time reading books and listening to the radio.
Tracy spent the majority of the next two years at home with Hepburn, living what she described as a quiet life: reading, painting and listening to music.
He remained largely unpopular among the other students, and spent much of his time alone, reading voraciously.
This same study found that the amount of time a child in the 90th percentile spent reading in two days, was the amount of time a child in the 10th percentile spent reading all year.
Proudhon, during the course of his work, spent hours every day reading this Christian literature and ultimately began to question many of his long held religious beliefs, ultimately leading him to reject Christianity altogether.
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