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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yelped his frenzied incantations. The bridegroom, a wide-smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton, Kykunkor's librettist, composer, choreographer and director. He is a native of Sierra Leone. His great- grandfather, a slave for a time, took the name Horton from the Nova Scotian who owned him. Asadata Dafora started studying tribal music and dancing in his 'teens, traveled all over Africa, learned 14 dialects which he supplemented later with English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. He drifted to Europe, sang at the Scala in Milan until the War, during which he fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Witch Woman | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...Glover, of Littleton, West Virginia. A.B. (Salem College) 1927; A.M. (West Va. Univ.) 1932; Principal, High and Grade Schools, Littleton, W. Va. Frederick H. McKelvey, of Charleston, Ill. A.B. (Univ. of Ill.), 1930. Principal, Junior High School, Charleston, Ill. Albert W. Purvis, of Truno, Nova Scotia. A.B., (Univ. of New Brunswick) 1931. Instructor, Provincial Normal College, Truro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME RECIPIENTS OF 31 FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Friday and Saturday, a team composed of Howard M. Lawn '34 and Clement L. Harriss '34 will debate Dalhousie University at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Mt. Allison College at Sackville, New Brunswick, on the subject, "Resolved, That Hitlerism is a benefit to the German people." They will uphold the affirmative stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM MEETS PROVIDENCE TOMORROW | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

March 2 and 3 will be the date of the team's longest trip. It will travel to Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, and Mount Allison, New Brunswick and hold a debate in each city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Team To Take 5 Trips During 1934 Season | 1/10/1934 | See Source »

Amid pounding, wind-lashed combers two miles off the coast of Nova Scotia one day last week, the crew of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police cruiser Scatarie peered into the offing with amazement at what they saw-a big bull moose swimming out to sea. Spume drenched his antlers, waves submerged his muzzle as he swam, obviously in distress, into the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Seagoing Moose | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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