Word: bead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spurring full speed on a shaggy Mongolian pony, War Lord Tang flourished his repeating rifle, drew bead on a stationary target, riddled its bulls-eye with lead. ''Marshal Tang is also a dead pistol shot," boasted one of his officers. "He shoots with his left hand, with his right and with both hands at once...
...highest in grade and value. A few of these places where it was seen were: the Emperor's Museum in the "Forbidden City," Peking (now Peiping), China (time, about 11 years ago), finely carved Buddhas and other ornaments; Mandalay and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, Burma, India, bead necklaces, etc.; Tibet, lama's hand prayer wheels...
...fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable hours within sight of some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled for him, but grappled in vain. Sadly they set sail for Manhasset to wait another year...
Born in Upper Bavaria in 1878, he has first-memories of the views from his bedroom window, from the frame of which swung a large bead of clear blue glass. "I could swing it from side to side as I pleased, quickly in short jerks or slowly and largely, and its motion seemed always to have a mysterious correspondence with whatever I desired and undertook." Whenever, across the street, the pageant of a funeral procession wound its way up to the cemetery on the hill, with incense burning, bells ringing, people singing and wailing, the child was filled with glee...
...craftsmen will be guests of the Harvard Anthropology club at the Hotel Commander this evening. In the group will be Dineh-Slapa (Gray Man), a Navajo sand-painter, Jo-01 (War Woman), a rug weaver, and (Fat Boy), a silversmith, Nez-Pah Sa-A (White Mountain Top), a Pueblo Bead maker. The gathering will be a private affair for the education and research of the club. A. M. Tozzer '00, professor of Peabody Museum, will had the guest list...