Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottom of the sea from the hold of a specially built ship. Light to overcome the submarine darkness, is furnished by a battery of powerful lights that are let down near the observation box. The Scientific American has acclaimed Mr. Williamson's achievement in originating submarine photography, the creation...
...Sunday Schools, proclaiming the glory and power of Egypt in the best Negroid rhetoric. After Moses has been called to his heavenly home, the world is again steeped in sin. When the Lord God visits a jazz cellar in Babylon, so outraged is he that he repents of his creation and resigns mankind to perdition. But the prophet Hosea inspires faith in his followers together with sympathy born of suffering. Beholding his works, the Lord God's attitude changes accordingly, and, at another fish-fry within the pearly gates, he presages another attempt to redeem mankind...
...Shame upon those in authority who will permit such a humiliating, disgraceful and dangerous thing to happen! Vhere are the white men of self-respect, of race pride? The great white race is the climax and crowning glory of God's creation. . . . The present disgusting and deplorable situation in New York State is not new under the modern Roman-Tammany system. Scores of Negroes in Harlem have been permitted to marry white wives with licenses granted by and with the hearty approval of the state and city government...
...before opening. They danced to the music of mandolins and guitars in the dignified Grand Central premises. They drank tea and other liquids. They smoked cigarets in modernist defiance of signs that read "No Smoking." Some of them ranged themselves earnestly around "Egg Beater No 5," a thoroughly modernistic creation by Modernist Stuart Davis, and had their photograph taken. It was the biggest event in the campaign to modernize U. S. art since the Armory Show of 1913, in which several of the same artists were represented. Now the modernists were and are in control of the situation...
...instances of the scholar's success being based wholly on the number of fly-leaves bearing his name. It has been said somewhere that the true scholar never creates; he delves into the past and criticizes. Practically all academic presses are engaged in printing and binding these gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds of a few hundred pupils may be a greater thing than a rehashed Doctor's thesis, but it counts not as much. The great teacher may suffer from a prosaic style when he forsakes the classroom for the more...