Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the fighting ceased in Ethiopia weeks ago, London and Rome continued last week to rehash ugly stories concerning the methods and materials employed in that African war. What stirred Britons to the highest pitch of indignation last spring against Benito Mussolini was the fact that
...March on Rome. So quick was his rise as a party politician that at the age of 34 Giuseppe Bottai was Fascist Minister of Corporations, wielding more power than Il Duce thought good for him. Soon he was kicked upstairs to be Fascist Governor of Rome. When the African adventure developed, Fascist Bottai packed his kit without a word of protest, sailed for Ethiopia as a simple major of the line. For being a good boy, he had his reward last week when he was made civil governor of Addis Ababa...
...plowed over all of it. The venerable Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) surveyed the realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian Institution's famed Ales Hrdlicka is a physical and geographical anthropologist. In range and volume of work and weight...
Motor Habits-the way people use their bodies-seem to be closely linked with the biological makeup. They are fairly uniform over wide areas. The American Indian cuts by drawing the knife toward himself; the African native cuts away from himself, like a New England whittler. Postures and gesticulations are good indicators of motor habits. To sort out cultural from biological factors, therefore, Dr. Boas made motion pictures of conversational gestures of different nationalities, projected the frames slowly one after another, translated the movements. Typical findings...
...furrows of Aprilia," bellowed II Duce, "are made in the victorious time of our African enterprise, the 14th year of the Fascist era, and the 160th day of the unfair economic siege against Italy which increases the disorder and misery of the world...