Word: caves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer who was trying to get her family's signatures to documents enabling him to sell a piece of land they owned. Uncle Goliath (Maurice Cass) was the hardest one to persuade. To prove that civilization was a failure, he was living, dressed in bearskins, in a cave adjacent to his 40-room house. By the time Goliath signed the power of attorney on a piece of hide, Toni and Henry were in love. Toni knew that her family would never speak to her again unless she was married in church - so she and Henry went to a justice...
...regions by which the art map has been enlarged are geographic-Chinese, Japanese and Indian art; and temporal- the prehistoric art of the cave dwellers, the Sumerians, Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians. These Author Cheney illuminates at length, scrupulously giving facts, interpretation and speculation for what they are worth. In this perspective, European art and artists assume new proportions and come under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time...
...Thieves). Magellan christened the friendly but overcurious natives with a blood bath, burned their village. Gonzalo with three others had the bad luck to be ashore when the natives returned to attack the ship, which fled for good. Only one of the four to escape, he lived in a cave until his quick wit and civilized gadgets awed the natives into accepting him as a reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful...
...time-tested program will be performed by the Orchestra at the in-town week-end concerts. Mendelasohn's "Tingal's Cave" Overture and Third Symphony, Sibeliua's "Tapiols," and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet" overture fantasia are the offerings...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum...