Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotted hulk of the great pre-war ballet of Serge Diaghilev. It is too clogged with unnaturalness to have very much meaning today. For one thing, its stories are mostly mythological or fanciful, handled as though in a complete vacuum, with not the slightest trace of anything to link them with real life. The music, too, is defective in that it is addicted to effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that is, it is an age in which...
Next day, 21 local champions from eleven States lined up in the Keppy cornfield to wait the starting bomb in the husking contest. Favored by fence-row experts to win were Marion Link, Iowa State champion, Ecas Vaughan, Illinois State champion, Irving Bauman, also from Illinois, runner-up in the nationals in 1935 and 1938. The contestants, some of them stripped to the waist, sweated up & down the corn rows, snatching off the dried ears, husking them with a hook strapped to the wrist, flinging them against the "bang-boards" of tractor-drawn wagons...
...minutes later time was called. The contestants were panting, splotched with blood from cutting themselves on stiff corn leaves. Judges pawed over the wagonloads, deducted gleanings, weighed the results, announced that Irving Bauman had set a new record of 46.71 bushels, had won the 1940 national championship. Second: Marion Link, whose 46.36 bushels also topped the old record...
...Spain and France there was no rejoicing, only a queer, unreal enthusiasm. Arriba of Madrid, the Falangist paper, tried to take consolation in a link of blood with ancient Germans. Basques, Asturians, Castilians, it said, "bear the unmistakable imprint of their Visigoth origin." In Paris, Le Temps's editorial writer cut a tiny gem of black futility: "There are days when it is difficult to write anything at all on any subject whatsoever...
Dean Morse has an injured neck; Trajillo-Bravo is on crutches with a badly sprained ankle; Bob Axtell smashed his nose; and two others have minor injuries. At present Link Clark, Bill Murphy, and Elmer Taylor are the mainstays of the skeleton team...