Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receded northward for the last time. Leo Frobenius did not believe "anything so essentially alive could vanish so completely." He coaxed, cajoled and corn-pelled his elders to back his theory that Stone Age men had taken their chisels and paint brushes down into Africa after the last glacial period, and on his first expedition to North Africa in 1912, Professor Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings. It was already known that in Magdalenian times some artist had smeared iron oxide on a cavern wall at Altamira, in north Spain. Cunningly he had fashioned...
...Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic) art work, whose humans are always drawn in the frontal, wedge-trunk position (as in Egyptian art), whose women are handily identified by little bumps on their chests and whose animals, the quagga and antelope...
...replenish. While we know the pills keep one awake, so little is actually known of their cumulative effects that we think it unwise for students to take them without a physician's advice. No more than two of these pills should be taken in any 24-hour period. The size of dose, however, depends a great deal on the individual. People with heart trouble and high blood pressure obviously should not take Benzedrine...
Because in the depth of the hard times people had other things to worry about and were not likely to take any action that might jeopardize anyone's business or job, during the early 1930's the U. S. entertainment business entered upon a period of license equaled only in Europe. The films got broad and bare. Fan dancers, "nudist colonists" and other female exhibitionists were responsible for the gay success of world's fairs at Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. The fair girls vanished with the autumn and the Legion of Decency rectified the films...
...London last month, he announced his intentions with such a neat sous-entendu as would make a French Foreign Officer preen (TIME, April 19). Said he: "This is the sweetest [mission] I have ever had. . . . If we could only reach one agreement ... it would be important in this crucial period of world history to Democracy . . . showing that 22 nations can sit down and reach some agreement...