Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. War being an irrational thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
...Hawaii's race problem began to trickle back to the U. S. More of it will doubtless be heard when the official visitors come back and Congress assembles next fall, for then a commission appointed by the Hawaiian Legislature will come over to the mainland. What the racial problem of Hawaii amounts to is evident from the following table, which gives the various elements which make up the population of this polyglot archipelago: Japanese 125,368 Filipinos 39,608 Americans, British, Germans, Russians 34,272- Portuguese 26,791 Chinese 24,522 Hawaiians 21,271 Caucasian-Hawaiians 13,134 Asiatic...
...individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms...
...contemplate an institution where professors of distinction will gather facts about international trade, racial psychology, commercial and military geography, diplomatic usage and experience, effects of artificial economic barriers upon international amity, effects of new inventions to expedite communication and all the hundreds of things that enter into contact of nation with nation...
...nation, behind business-noise and play-noise, are heard the real voices of the continent? Frost and Robinson in New England, Sandburg and Lindsay in the Midwest. The Far West has been silent since Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, John Muir. Now Jeffers is heard, unmistakably powerful, individual, a true racial poet chanting on his high Pacific headland...