Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Johnny English, 14, who was kept alive during a critical period of his illness last summer by his hopes of a victory for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series; of neurogenic sarcoma (nerve cancer); in Chicago. Told of the fourth straight defeat of the Cubs last fall, he replied: "Well, you can't always...
...order. Moreover, the Ukrainian peasant was not enthusiastic about feeding the Germans at the front. For the 1918 harvest they tried to trick the Germans by planting just enough for their own needs. Only 42,000 truck loads of grain were exported from the Ukraine during the entire period of German-Austrian occupation...
...word for Persian miniature paintings. Humay Meeting Humayun (see cut), painted on silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree and flowers...
...since its brief awakening after the Civil War has Southern literary life been as lively as it is now. Not since that same period has Southern life changed as rapidly as it is now changing. Political and economic news from the South is confused and contradictory; but Southern literary news snaps and crackles with unexpected items-with new writers discovered and old writers coming back, new magazines popping up and every mail bringing to publishers' desks fresh evidence of the South's literary ferment. In England (where T. S. Eliot's Criterion has called The Southern Review...
...Crimson cagers packed away their uniforms after the Dartmouth game until the end of the examination period, but all was not quiet along the E. I. L. basketball front over the last weekend...