Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the songs she has collected have been used as themes by U. S. composers. Plump precise Ethnographer Densmore started out as a conventional musician, studied piano and composition at Oberlin Conservatory and Harvard. But when, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1892, she saw Chief Rain-in-the-Face dance with a fringe of human scalps around his coat, she really sat up and took notice...
Teachers. If U. S. education, out of step with the industrial 20th Century, was ripe for change when Dewey arrived, it was not yet ready to plump for any such apparently helter-skelter scheme as this and Progressive Education made little headway before 1918. That fall one Stanwood Cobb, an instructor in Annapolis' severely traditional U. S. Naval Academy, rounded up a few progressive educators, formed the Progressive Education Association...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
William C. Rittman '39 and L.E. Lebocuf '39 awoke yesterday morning to find a plump duck complacently waddling about their living room in Adams House...
...Palestine, stop Jewish immigration, resign as mandatory Power-in plainer words, that Britain get out and leave the 400,000 Jews to the mercy of the 900,000 Arabs. Significant it was that the delegates journeyed to Alexandria to drink tea at Ras-El-Tin Palace with plump, ambitious, 18-year-old King Farouk I of Egypt, whose palace clique foresees for him the future role of Caliph of all Islam...