Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sovereigns William and Mary, carried a 40-in. Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head. At Radcliffe's death, the cane was passed on to the first of four eminent successors in the practice of royal medicine. Now a museum piece, it has a hollow head, which may have been used as a vinaigrette, holding aro matic salts to ward off infection. U.S. pathologists revived the tradition of the gold-headed cane in 1919, and its replica was awarded in 1923 to William Henry Welch (1850-1934), another of Whipple's great teachers at Hopkins...
...words, coming from a man who aspires to the leadership of Africa, sounded somewhat hollow-and with good reason. The 100-odd delegates from 31 African countries were largely second-string (the exception: Kenya's Tom Mboya, who goes everywhere). And the "brothers in arms" were soon at one another's throats. Somali delegates tried to denounce Ethiopian border attacks, and had to be ejected...
Christians are trying to maintain between the City of the World and the City of God. "... it [integration] would be a hollow victory if it wrecked our school system or did harm to our children." Is not the fact that roughly 90% of the Christian missionaries of the world are being frustrated by our example of segregation in their attempts to bring the Gospel to the colored races a rather concrete defeat? Where does the balance lie between...
...possibility of a "hollow victory...
...then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath him. For Choreographer Christensen, the biggest problem was the birth of Eve. "I sat at my desk for days, thinking-how do I do that? Drew pictures, and all that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...