Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unique exhibition of paintings done by the modern American Indian and lent by Miss M. C. Wheelwright, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Miss A. E. White. Most of the pictures come from the region around Santa Fe. There has been an attempt to have the Indian develop a distinct art of his own, based on the design and color of the older traditions. Most of these paintings portray various ceremonies of peace and war. However, many of the war dances are in reality peace dances performed in a religious spirit to celebrate the close of hostilities...
...shocks were the first ones of distinct strength recorded in the seismograph in recent weeks. The needle began to record its jagged lines about 12.30 o'clock, and for two hours its agitation continued. Three main wave trains shook the shaft that penetrates the earth many feet below the recording instruments. The first one was written-out a few minutes after 1 o'clock, and the others followed during the next ten minutes. At a late hour yesterday afternoon the disturbances had not been definitely placed...
...five teams taking part in the bouts Harvard and Brown enter as distinct favorites. The University wrestlers have for three consecutive years won the team championship and include two individual intercollegiate champions, C. C. Corson '28 and Joseph Lifrak '29 in their ranks. Brown, with three individual champions, will take to the mats a close rival for honors...
...literary fraternity, has branded the above statement as absolutely false, and instead lauds the editor of "Froth" for the publication of the issue. Major W. O. Thompson, the "subject of the front cover caricature," states, "I was highly pleased with the entire magazine, and consider the issue a distinct achievement in the field of journalism. The entire 'Froth' staff should be commended upon it, and I took the reference to myself in the manner intended, that of an excellent joke...
...RISES TO PARNASSUS-Henry Fairfield Osborn-Princeton University Press ($2.50). Ages and ages ago, but eons after primates became distinctly monkeys, apes and men, mankind began his fumbling rise to earthly supremacy. The start was probably on the plateaus of Central Asia and the first men were certainly runners. They hunted to live. Descendants of theirs who wandered into other plateaus of the continents continued the hunting life. Others traveled into forests and became climbers, others into level lowlands and became squatting farmers; others into seashores and became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types...