Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also see that true art involves something more than the skillful manipulation of a brush. The collection serves as a fitting close to an unusually fertile season for the museum which has presented during the past year exhibits of etchings, watercolors, and oils taken from almost every important period in the history of art. it is to be regretted that more students do not take advantage of the many exhibits, permanent and temporary, which are housed in the galleries of Fogg each year. A university museum should be the vagabond's heaven rather than the concentrator's haven...
...restriction of Jewish immigration for the next five years to 75,000, bringing the total Jewish population to approximately 525,000 (Arab population, 990,000); 3) restrictions on the sale of land to Jews; 4) an independent Palestine with guarantees for the Jewish minority, following a ten-year period of increasing self-government...
Life and Death of an American (by George Sklar; produced by the Federal Theatre Project) tells the story of Jerry Dorgan, supposedly the first U. S. baby born in 1900. The play spans the same period and dramatizes many of the same events as The American Way; but Jerry is a worker's son and his story is no paean to the democratic formula. An indignant protest against a system which creates and cannot, cope with poverty and unemployment, it ends bitterly with Jerry killed during a strike...
...great arranger, Fletcher had a few years ago what is considered by many to have been the greatest swing band ever assembled. Such stars as Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Chu Berry, and Israel Crosby were members of the band during the nineteen thirty-three period. Goodman, following his custom of copying only the best has recently made recordings of "Wrapping It Up" and "Big John's Special" that are note for note copies of the Henderson Deccas...
Captain Barker's stay here will be for an indefinite period, probably lasting for two years. After that time he believes he will be returned to active duty...