Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the curtain went down for the last time Caterina Jarboro came to the apron of the Hippodrome's gulf-like stage to answer wildly enthusiastic curtain calls. Her arms filled with bouquets, more piled on the floor around her, she knelt in acknowledgment. Tears welled to her eyes, her voice choked as she thanked two leading stage characters of her race for their tributes, Tenor Paul Robeson and Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson...
...child laborers whose use had got him in trouble. Canning and food packing compose another industry which will have to purge itself of child labor when it brings its code to Washington for approval. Children are extensively used in the cheaper shrimp and oyster canneries along the Gulf Coast. They stand on wet, sloppy floors working at long tables until their backs are about to break. Because their product is perishable they are worked night & day at top speed. When Federal inspectors come around, the lights suddenly go out of commission...
...even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...year in scholarships to educate young Persians in Great Britain. 7) Be business good or bad, the minimum annual payment to the Persian Government is to be ?750,000. 8) For the sale of oil in Persia, prices to the public shall be 10% less than Gulf of Mexico or Rumanian prices, whichever is the lowest at the time, and 25% less to the Persian Government...
...There is no other contemporary . . . whom I ever want to reread for pleasure." Allen Tate: "One of the three great works of poetry in our time." Hugh Walpole: "He is a beautiful mingler of dead worlds and live ones to me-one of the few poets who bridges the gulf between the Renaissance and Lenin." Archibald MacLeish: "Pound, more than any other man, is responsible for the emancipation of modern English poetry from the prose tradition of the 19th Century." A large section of serious critics think Pound is not only best of living U. S. poets but the only...