Word: camels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly a line or two in "Milestones" could chronicle this fact along with the announcement of elections of other bishops. Isn't a bishop more important than the death of a bull or a camel (TIME, June 2)? I have a hunch that this is a good steer...
...alumni of coming back to the campus at stated times to drink again from the fountain of learning and of youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest of their lives, is completely fallacious. The college must offer a "recharging service" to its alumni whose batteries have run down. It must at least give them...
Traveling from Peking to Kalgan by train, thence 400 mi. inland by camel the Andrews party hopes to find the dried lake bed of which a Mongol guide told them. To prove his story the guide fetched an armful of fossilized bones...
...India the natives, naïvely do sometimes hold That savage elephants are sobered, (so at least I have been told) By a camel's bitter biting of their thin ears flapping fold. Once from Agra and from Oudh, all the people came to feast And to stand in glamorous gazing at grandees from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish...
...with a black handkerchief over his face who carries her off is her husband, she experiences a change of heart. Composer Nacio Herb Brown has contributed songs that are chilly parlor phantoms of real cowboy melodies. Cliff Edwards does a little singing. Best shots: Miss Crawford's camel's hair coat, her jodhpurs...