Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This is undoubtedly true. Ted Shawn might conceivably do setting-up exercises, claim them as an aboriginal dance, and be hailed has even more of a maestro than...
...interesting survival of the Alaskan gold rush of 1848 is the fact that no one in the North ever asks you where you are from. This is a result of the influx of a number of questionable characters during the gold strike, men whom it would have been dangerous to question. Nearly all of the trappers in Arctic Canada and in Alaska for that matter, are gold miners who entered the territory 28 years age and have not been able to leave it. Most of them make from $3,000 to $1,000 a year selling furs to the Hudson...
...immediately by the coup d' état of General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding one more such regime Secretary Kellogg is only following scrupulously a well established U. S. tradition. The incidental question of abstract "right" faded years ago from the realm of practical consideration. Large on the practical horizon looms the fact that the U. S. has secured for Nicaragua a series of administrations which if they were not wanted were marked by a relative peace in which Nicaraguans were at liberty...
...Thus attired I am reported to have motored to the border in a diplomatic car, and to have expressed pleasure to Dr. Hjelf that it did not fly the red flag, emblem of Finland at that time. As is known, I did flee to Finland at the date in question, afterward proceeding to Sweden. As is also known, General von Hindenburg, my colleague, remained behind, though equally in danger, manfully cheering and bracing the army in the trying Armistice days...
...Material help was not all for which the post-war student sought. He was deeply interested in the question of how the young academic generation might help to make forever impossible a cataclysm like that of the World War. Let us create bonds of mutual esteem and friendship among students of the world' reads the first resolution adopted at Strassbourg, and the founders immediately inaugurated a detailed program for a re-establishment of international academic relations. They inserted the National Unions of Students to establish permanent commissions for international student cooperation and to send annually five delegates from each country...