Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have too little land. Usually it is because their social organization and farming methods are ineffective. India is a hungry country, but it is not permanently overpopulated. It has much potentially good land whose present yields are pathetically low. India averages only ten bushels of wheat an acre while Denmark gets 50. India's rice yield is only 750 Ibs. an acre, one-quarter as good as Japan's. A little fertilizer and some simple improvements in agricultural technique would make a huge difference to India's food supply. If Indians liked corn and produced 136.24 bushels...
What made him so good a teacher was that he was still a student-and always would be. In seminars he was forever reading aloud the latest letter from a top physicist friend in Denmark or England, reporting a hot tip just telephoned from Harvard, or commenting on a physical journal fresh from a Japanese press. Privy to this latest scientific,gossip ("the lifeblood of physics," Oppenheimer calls it), his students felt themselves in the vanguard of advancing knowledge...
...simple Eskimo, best known for igloos and blubber-eating, may have been a bearer of culture to the New World. The Eskimos, says Curator Helge Larsen of Denmark's National Museum, once had a highly developed art, religion and social system. Perhaps they passed on a little of their culture before they lost...
...Tell them," exclaims Denmark Vesey, the Emperor Jones in face of his imminent downfall, "tell them Denmark Vesey says 'the Day will come.'" Forty years later, the Day did come...
While ostensibly Denmark Vesey (the part taken over by Juano Hernandez after Mr. Ingram's unfortunate collision with the Mann Act) is the leading character, actually he and his large-scale plans for the overthrow of the Charleston Whites are only a set-up. The man to watch is George Wilson, head slave and loyal friend to Captain Wilson, Charleston's wealthiest planter. Played adequately by John Marriott, George Wilson stands out for his inability to choose between the call of his race and the family which has reared him from birth in slavery. Educated, responsible, George, like Faust...