Romains
Americannoun
noun
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He wrote to the author Jules Romains, “My inner crisis consists in that I am not able to identify myself with the me of passport, the self of exile.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 6, 2017
Romains finds common ground in this polarized debate with an insight that remains perceptive.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2010
It has found a French satire from 1923 by Jules Romains, about a doctor who convinces a community that everyone is sick for one reason or another.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2010
Instead, excited Jules Romains forgot Whalen, launched into his own hour-long speech in French.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Donogoo tonka; ou, Les miracles de la science, suivi de Le bourg regenere, par Jules Romains, pseud. © 5Nov30; AF9958.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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