Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprang the surprise of the Big Ten when they conquered touted North western three weeks ago and followed it by beating Minnesota. In downtown Columbus' Broad & High quarterbacks stopped heckling Coach Francis Schmidt even after the Bucks were defeated 23-to-14 by Ivy Leaguer Cornell last week, began to count the days until November 25 when Ohio State is scheduled to meet Michigan - with an outside chance of winning the Big Ten title, if, in the meantime, it hurdles Indiana, Chicago, Illinois...
Sing Something Simple (Maxine Sullivan; Victor). Of interest not only to popular musical antiquarians (it is from the 1930 Second Little Show) but because Miss Sullivan (Loch Lomond) now sings refined, like all the mediocre white singers before they began imitating...
...Society of Jesus, militant defenders of Roman Catholic orthodoxy, a French Jesuit named Marcel Jousse has long been its enfant terrible. A onetime artillery captain who began studying for the order after World War I, white-haired, fiftyish Père Jousse invented and today teaches something he calls Rhyth-mocatechism, or preaching with gestures...
...theory began to evolve when he noticed a distinction between anthropoid and apish mimicry: children can imitate such actions as shaving and shooting without using razors or guns; but apes cannot, or do not. Père Jousse decided that miming and gesturing came before writing; hieroglyphics, he believed, were not ideograms, but mimograms, representations of significant gestures...
...Social Student is spectacled, enthusiastic Professor Harold 0. Rugg, of Columbia University's Teachers College. Twenty years ago Professor Rugg (Dartmouth '08) decided that history and geography, as taught in the schools, were dust-dry, had little to do with the price of eggs. An engineer, he began to study what a citizen needed to know. Eventually he designed a series of textbooks intended to give useful answers to useful questions. He undid the old packages (i.e., history, geography), dumped all his information in one basket-social studies...