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| 1 | 28 | I View more quotes about discovered">discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history. |
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| 1 | 25 | Surely I had no publications, and I am confident there must have been several candidates from American universities whose credentials and capacities would have far outshone my own, except for the desiderated British accent. |
| 1 | 26 | Yes, there would be the round of teas and the cocktail and supper invitations. |
| 1 | 27 | I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students. |
| 1 | 28 | I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history. |
| 1 | 29 | Fortunately, my departmental chairman, a gentle, bespectacled man, whose speciality was American economic history, knew even less than I did, or, at least, was considerate enough to allow me to believe so. |
| 1 | 30 | The Christmas vacation helped greatly. |
| 1 | 31 | I was especially counting on the time between the semesters to catch up, or, better, to lengthen my lead on the students. |