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
Jules Romains puffed slowly into the terminus, home at last, in the final volumes of his panoramic scrutiny of Europe from 1908 to 1933.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dureau de la Malle, Economie polit. des Romains, I, 151, allows agricultural laborers, in 80 departments of France, only 20-25 sous.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
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