Word: goddesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a utilitarian standpoint alone this policy is wise, since the University achieves immeasurable prestige from these quiet triumphs. A discovery such as that made recently by Professor Lake's expedition in the Sinai Peninsula, when the tomb of the Egyptian goddess Hathor was unearthed, brings to an institution of learning the credit to which its efforts entitle it. Present day science has reached the stage where much of the most vital work is done far from the cloistered museums and libraries. Like bread cast upon the waters, the support given Harvard to its globetrotting expeditions is repaying the University...
...Minobe. Quietly taught from Dr. Minobe's two standard textbooks in Japanese universities for 30 years, this constitutional concept was suddenly spotted two months ago by outraged Japanese jingoes (TIME, March 18). Not exactly contradicting the official legend that the Emperor of Japan is descended from the Sun Goddess, Dr. Minobe's works soberly refer to the Son of Heaven as "an organ of the Nation." What is more important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed the bullying of Japanese politicians by the Army and Navy, even advised the Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally overrule the General Staffs...
Strictly off the record, eight Japanese statesmen out of ten will readily admit to not believing the official legend that their Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. "We regard our Emperor with the respect Catholics feel for their Pope," they often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven...
...Walküre Brünnhilde is a high-spirited amazon, a goddess sired and loved by Wotan who punishes her by making her mortal and banishing her to a rock surrounded by fire. In Siegfried the perfect hero penetrates the flames and Brünnhilde is a woman radiantly in love. In Götterdämmerung the emotional range is so extended that few singers have been able to compass it successfully. In the first act a great Brünnhilde must be tender, exuberantly happy. In the second act bewilderment turns to blazing rage. Under the spell...
...held as far back as the 14th Century B.C.-which makes Eleusis by far the oldest Greek city exhumed and, according to Dr. Mylonas, disposes of the theory that the rites were imported from Egypt. Also cleared last season was the 14th Century Palace of the Rulers, where the Goddess was supposed to have taken refuge. An object of search and speculation for 25 years, the palace revealed one room closely resembling the throne room of the Palace at Knossos. Broken pottery and crude clay figurines were found. Final task was clearing the well beside which the goddess rested...