Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Mr. Suma, Professor Zimmerman of the Sociology Department has no axe to grind in his article "A German Village of Today." Professor Zimmerman has been making a study of the ancient German hamlet of Klein Leugden, and he attempts here to reach a fair conclusion as to the effects of Nazi legislation on the lives of this small group of German villagers...
...ancient baseball institution is preseason prognostication. Although most baseball fans are well aware of the fact that April forecasts are foolish, last week on the eve of the widely ballyhooed centennial season, they went ahead predicting how the major-league teams would finish in October. Most weighty predictions came from the baseball writers who had just returned from a two-month training-camp survey of sore arms, batting averages and rookies' temperaments...
Last month Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg created an archeological sensation when he announced, from San-el-Hagar on the Nile Delta, that he had found the funeral chamber and the mummy of one of the five kings named Sheshonk who ruled ancient Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty (TIME, April 3). It was suspected that this might be Sheshonk I, the conqueror who, according to the Old Testament, "came up against Jerusalem" and went away with all of Solomon's gold shields. Last week the mummy was identified by a "cartouche" (personal inscription) found on a breast ornament...
...Masks-the ancient substitute for make-up-appeared in Greek tragedy almost from the beginning. Their purposes: to express a type, depersonalize the actor, permit the actor to appear in more than one part...
...Zionists campaigned to get 1,000,000 Jews to buy Shekalim at 50? each, entitling them to vote in world Zionist elections. Symbol of Jewish solidarity, a Shekel (see cut) shows a reproduction of an ancient Hebrew coin. In Poland, where Jews are poor, a Shekel costs only a few cents. In the last Zionist voting year, 1937, only 217,214 U. S. Jews bought Shekalim...