Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show will range up and down the American Coast, from the Alaska Eskimos to the pre-Columbians of Mexico, Peru...
...Please make it plain that this is not only an Oriental show. It is something broader than that - a Pacific Basin show...
Former Eli Varsity boxer Walter Smith 2B is listed among the 125-pounders as is Paul O. Chatfield '39, who recently stopped out of his class to trim a 165 pound opponent in House boxing. The 125 and 115 pound brackets show two former Varsity boxers at Southern universities...
...Burden. Contemporary writers are not so ready to shoulder the phrase. In France it has become almost proverbial that the way to turn a French writer into a violent anti-imperialist and radical is to let him see Africa. In general, a good case could be made out to show that African natives now impress whites more than the other way round. Among three of the latest books on Africa, two might well add something to the case...
...best-seller lists were what they pretend to be, they would show no change from one year to another. No matter what high-powered romances become popular for two months or two years, the Bible, the standard dictionaries and Fannie Farmer's Boston cookbook are perennially the best-selling books in the U. S. Below these three pieces of sacred and profane literature there are the new books that for convenience are called bestsellers. Each week the position of these ephemeral favorites are carefully checked. According to mysterious fluctuations in the public taste, books rise and fall in popularity...