Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oceania and Africa, sculpture serves mainly for the representation of native gods or ancestral spirits who are thought of as forces for good or evil in the tribal life. There is no incentive to represent these gods in terms of exterior reality as we know it. Primitive man tends to think of matter as something which can conceivably change its nature in almost any particular, and in ways that originate in the most accidental associative processes...
...subscribed to the Constitution, believed in a white man's God, paid $2 a year to Mr. Smith, and bought his khaki shirts, boots, etc. His program included "America for Americans," abolition of the gold standard, a greenback bonus, freedom for the Philippines, abolition of the "chainstore evil" free coinage of silver. Not its assorted panaceas but the imbroglios of its chief brought the Khaki Shirts its notoriety. Last July when Art Smith was holding a meeting in New York's Queens, antiFascists demonstrated against him and one of them was killed. Before a grand jury Smith accused...
...Adams House Junior Varsity crew seems to have solved two of the major problems that bother crew coaches. To combat the evil of the boat checking this crew has taken a leaf from the manufacturers of multi-cylinder automobiles. They believe that if there is always at least one oar in the water delivering power, the boat won't have a chance to check--hence the crew's name. "Perpetual Commotion." Likewise, to counteract the ill effects of individual oarsmen rolling out, all eight men loan out both at the catch and the recovery, thereby assuring a perfect...
With one notable exception the reading is good. Unfortunately, the exception is the textbook used in the course, Hockett. A great deal of the evil of having a poor textbook is, however, removed by the thoroughness of Professor Merk's lectures. With this one exception, History 5a accomplishes in very commendable fashion its task of racing through the nation's history...
...long before the evil midnight when a company of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen murdered their country's most famed character, Augusto Cesar Sandino (TIME, March 5), Sandino had said: "There are now three powers in Nicaragua: President Sacasa, the Guardia and myself." Though he was dead Sandino was last week still one of Nicaragua's three powers, but the order of importance had changed...