Word: conferance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed in one case incest is deliberately practiced because it is thought to confer singular powers on the man who commits it. On the Nkomati River men, before departing to hunt hippopotamus, bed with their daughters, after which they are deemed to be murderers and wizards, and the hippopotamus will be no match for them...
...AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture the right to bring about birth control among bees. ... I have a good many bees. I do not know how many of them are queens; but I am just a little curious to know how I am expected to control the queen bees. . . ." "Permit...
Born amid suspicion, confusion and recrimination, the Banking Bill seemed headed for heavy weather. Although Governor Eccles had promised to confer with Senator Glass on new legislation, the Banking Bill was inadvertently cleared by the White House before the testy little Virginian saw a copy. Moreover, the Eccles Bill proposed to change the whole theory of the Federal Reserve Act, toward which, as its jealous father, Carter Glass had a distinctly possessive attitude. If there really was a Glass-Eccles feud, as some newspapers made out, the Banking Bill promised fireworks...
...skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content to list Crow customs on the warpath, Ethnologist Lowie traces down all aspects of Crow war psychology, discovers an underlying philosophy in contradictory practices. Scalps were taken, but did not confer honor. A great achievement was to enter an enemy camp and cut loose a picketed horse, the exploit counting for more than the material gain. The Crow went regularly on the warpath, yet considered fighting as such disgraceful. Although killing enemies was meritorious, the Crow who first touched a helpless...
...called for cheers from the Senior Class, who lustily saluted '10, '85, major sports, minor sports, and the ladies. At this point in the exercises the rostrum was turned over to Clarence C. Little '10, permanent class secretary. He declared that the Class of 1910 had several degrees to confer on its members. A diploma was claimed to be the most useless thing in the world, and for this reason fans were presented with the comment that the Class would have to be "like Sally Rand, not Talleyrand." George A. Parker '10 was the first to be honored. Mr. Parker...