Word: ant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is Ant and its Relation to Russian Literature", Professor Wiener, Sever 25, Russian...
...ant of the dance is the most fundamental of all the arts," Ruth St. Denis one of America's premier interpretive dancers, stated in an interview with a Crimson reporter. "Interpretive dancing has just started in this country; 80 years ago not a dozen people would go to see the same type of performance with which we are now able to fill houses all over the country. Of course it will always be less popular than modern jazz for it can never become a common type of dancing. Popular dancing such as the modern fox trot must be essentially simple...
...Allen has brought back with him a large collection of specimens of all sorts. He has a tremendous number of small animals and birds of various shapes and colors. One of his most interesting specimens is a skin of a pangolin a very odd variety of ant eater. It is a toothless beast which lives on ants and similar insects, devouring them with its long tongue. Some of them grow to six feet in length. There is also a small variety. The animals shape strongly resembles a rather distorted and enlarged cigar which has grown a head and legs...
...Last week the President approved of Secretary Hoover's trans continental airways plan, appointed William P. MacCracken Jr. Assist ant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aviation...
...built. There are to be in the service 1,650 regular flying officers, 550 reserve officers, and 15,000 enlisted men, ($89,000,000 had previously been appropriated for naval aviation.) Simultaneously the President nominated and the Senate ap proved Edward P. Warner and Frederick Trubee Davison as Assist ant Secretaries of the Navy and Army, respectively, to direct aviation. Edward P. Warner, skilled aero-engineer and aerodynamicist, young enthusiast, has been professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also conducted a post-graduate course for army and navy officers. Said the New York Times: "A better...