Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.- MATTHEW...
Pigmies. Black manikins parading pompously in a Pharaoh's circus, a Roman lady's ebony toy boy, a living statuette of jet in a Chinese garden-vestiges of their pigmy race peered from New Guinea bushes when Smithsonian's Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire...
...England, Lincoln was as harshly treated as at home. Punch printed grotesque caricatures of the "boor" by its greatest draughtsmen, John Leech and Sir John Tenniel, later famed for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrations. The magazine Fun carried a series of bitter drawings by Matthew Somerville Morgan, whose work has only recently been discovered by Lincoln authorities, purporting to show "Honest Abe" a thief, demagog and charlatan. But it was in the South the most galling pictures were drawn. One Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest...
...casual appraisals now made, a respectable survey of a man's effectiveness as a teacher should be: 1) systematic; 2) impartial; 3) made from various angles, . . . 4) of known reliability, . . . 5) capable of showing the virtues and weaknesses of a man's teaching. . . ." Fortnight ago President Matthew Lyle Spencer of the University of Washington (Seattle) thus addressed himself in a letter to his faculty...