Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hills of northern Palestine, matters were settled amicably. Each chief agreed to allow the other to retain the "Commander-in-Chief" title, but only over separate districts. Neither is now to give the other orders, although "requests for cooperation" will be heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep and brewed a kettle of black Arab coffee. Just when huge hunks of mutton were being devoured, British bombers appeared and the party scattered. The rebels put their losses at three dead, six wounded, guffawed heartily when British aviators reported Arab...
...make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly; it is natural that he approach a new idea in a slow, roundabout fashion, appraising and rationalizing as he goes...
Academically, it is healthy that the student attack learning in an independent fashion. If indifference means no more than this, who can object? But if the criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities...
...winning the Cup. Except for a brief shock the following day when the Australians took the doubles in a sensational reversal of form, the 9,000 spectators who filled the stands each day saw just what they had expected to see. Budge beat both Quist and Bromwich in routine fashion, clinched the series before the concluding match, lost by Riggs to Bromwich...
...Transvaal Museum discovered in the South African Sterkfontein caves last fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been found, but certain it is that it carried itself like an ape, because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil...