Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly no innovation this side of the authorized cut could be more advantageous to undergraduates than that of a portable squash court. An investigation into the origin of the note found on a door in Adams' F entry might be worth while. It read: "Mr. . . . and Mr. . . . You must return Squash Court No. 251 at once...
...action" against the D.A.R., President Truman said that he could not interfere with a "private enterprise." But, the President added testily, "one of the first steps taken by the Nazis when they came to power was to forbid the public appearance of artists and musicians whose religion or origin was unsatisfactory to the 'master race...
...minutes later Powell received a telegram from the First Lady. Said she: "I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race or origin...
...well have guessed, the Nina Leen pix of the "U.S. Scene" has raised a storm of arguments as to its origin. To be sure it's home for all of us, but still to each of us it bears a marked resemblance also to each of our own home states...
...Mexico City's cool nights. Just a few months ago La Bamba steamed up to the higher altitudes from Veracruz, where horsemen and fishing peasants, known as jarochos, have danced it for 400 years. To a jarocho, La Bamba is a studied love ritual of Spanish-Indian origin, in which the dancers start far apart and slowly move together by delicate footwork, tying a ribboned sash on the ground into a lover's knot with their feet. As they dance they sing their own improvised, often risqué and not always intelligible love lyrics...