Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither an exotic nor a professional prophet, 42-year-old Professor Lips does not go off the deep end with his late eminent countryman, Oswald Spengler, who prophesied an onslaught on Europe by a black horde led by white adventurers. But he does not present savages as the pitiably naive creatures they are in most white imaginations. In fact, Professor Lips points out, North America and Australia have been the only continents actually wrested from savages by the white race, which in South America has been mostly absorbed and in India and China repelled from all but a few footholds...
...Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...birds, insects, small animals, weeds, poets and artists, there exists no snugger sanctuary than "Sarobia," a 175-acre estate in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, on the Delaware River above Philadelphia. "Sarobia's"' gateposts are topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society...
...property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji," an honorific title roughly meaning "Sir Krishna." Last week, looking nearer 20 than 42, with a few streaks of gray in his thick black hair, Krishnaji refreshed himself at "Sarobia" chiefly by playing vigorous, bounding badminton. This week some 60 picked believers will be allowed to meet with him for a fortnight of discussions at "Sarobia." Then he goes to Ojai, Calif., near which a corporation devoted to his interests owns property...
...York Stock Exchange. Bravely the governors announced their determination to keep open, but on the morning of July 31, after one look at the overnight accumulation of selling orders, they reluctantly reconsidered. For four months the Stock Exchange was shut tight, timidly reopening only after informal "black-bourse" trading had reached such sizable volume that brokers grew envious. At first all business was on a cash basis, but to nearly everyone's surprise prices started to climb and the Wartime boom was on. Early last week Wall Street had occasion to recall those historic days, for a thundering...