Word: caves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the British learned that the Fakir had made his headquarters in a hillside cave. Bombers roared ahead and the British troops closed in. The Fakir and his tribesmen took up positions behind boulder barricades and for two days beat back British attacks. One British captain, six soldiers were killed before the Fakir and his followers had fled again...
...June 4, Dr. Kleitman and Graduate Student Bruce Richardson entered Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, took up residence in a snug cavern 119 feet underground where for them day and night on the surface had no meaning. There they lived a 28-hour cycle, sleeping nine hours each 28-hour "day." There were only six of their long days in a calendar week. They had a regular routine of eating, sleeping, reading, writing, walking...
...youth's story is ominous for the future of democracy, the commission recommended more jobs, more education and guidance, more fun for Youth. Its warning: ''Unpleasant stories are told of operators of coal properties who . . . mine only the richer veins and leave the smaller ones to cave in. This coal, it is said, is forever lost. Somehow this sort of thing reminds us that youth, too, never comes again...
...would appear from the first primary held since the defeat of President Roosevelt's Reorganization Bill that the dike is beginning to cave...
...Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...