Word: orientales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1925, he proposed to erect a skyscraper with Calvary Baptist Church as its core. Trustees resigned while Dr. Straton organized legal battles to justify his design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far...
Jose R. Capablanca, onetime world chsss champion, left by the Mauretania, predicted gloomily that in 15 years the game of chess will be exhausted, every combination of moves will be known even to amateurs. But he has a plan. Use a larger board, two additional pieces, four players. Mme. Halide...
Instructor Wilhelm II first lectured for 75 minutes on the topic "Ocean Traffic," then listened to four 30-minute lectures on Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Oriental art, architecture.
THE SILENT HOUSE-Those charming poisons, administered by an expert Oriental (TIME, Feb. 20).