Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goats were the objects of our expedition. These goats now wild but descended from a domestic herd left on the islands 400 years ago by Zargo, manage to obtain water for life from dew and scant fresh water pools in the rock, inaccessible to men. The goats were remarkably agile in moving about in the rocks but they did not far surpass in this art, the natives of the Madeiran village of Canico. These, accustomed to hunting the shearwater gulls among the rocks for the purpose of their feathers and wax, and the orchilla lichen for its dye mounted...
...orchilla, a species of lichen is very valuable and from it the natives produce a rich purple dye. This plant may have been one of the sources of supply of purple dye obtained by the Greeks. A second uncommon plant which we came across was the barilla, the leaves of which glisten as though make of ice. From it the gatherers obtain soda. Specimens of a large, black, spider, is lycosa ingens were found. This spider is smaller than the Cuban tarantula and notable for its coal blackness...
...revealing interpretation, more subtlety perhaps, more real art than one finds in the ordinary popular play. And since the Guild is not a stock company, but picks its actors from a large group, it need not overwork a few stars in possibly uncongenial parts, but may by careful selection obtain the best characterization for every role. Its very nature gives it many advantages, all tending to produce finished first-rate performances while its rather Altruistic character engages the attention and interest of everyone who occasionally hungers for an intelligent, significant play...
...features of the period between the halves at the Yale football game on Saturday. This year, as in previous years, every ticket to the cheering section has been stamped for a red or white handkerchief with which to form the "H". Such handkerchiefs may be obtained at the H. A. A. ticket office until Saturday morning. The cheer leaders for Saturday are especially urgent in requesting all holders of cheering section tickets to obtain the special red and white handkerchiefs before the game...
...quite in a class by itself, so far as it is to be put in a class at all. Mr. Meiklejohn is deeply concerned with the problem of educating persons to realize the value of freedom of activity, and, that done, of showing them what they should do to obtain that freedom, and what the college can do to help the general plan. He sets up an ideal, which, unlike many that have been puppeted before the public in recent years, does not disintegrate under the steady gaze of any really curious observer...