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...Write before the holiday. I won't have a very gay holiday without you, Sima...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...answer my letters? Why do you have a new address, although the papers don't mention any transfer? Sima, I feel they are taking your farther and farther away from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberator | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...concertgoers have seen many "Duncan Dancers." New to the Lewisohn Stadium was the group which performed last week: large-legged Irma Duncan and her Isadora Duncan dancers, known simply as Ruth, Sima, Julia, Hortense, Minna and Raya. For them a stage was built in the Stadium, a lattice set up to conceal the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Barefoot, clad in flowing Greek garments, they performed Tchaikovsky's "Pathetic" Symphony, two Slavonic Dances of Dvorak, the rollicking Dance of the Apprentices from Wagner's Die Meister singer. Then Irma Duncan, most active exponent of Isadora's tradition. danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duncan Dancers | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...Greenland a year ago. His immediate purpose was meteorological, his remote purpose geophysical. He had developed a highly regarded hypothesis that the continents are drifting away from each other. According to this hypothesis the core of Earth is very dense material called Nife. Incasing Nife is a shell of Sima. Floating on Sima are slabs of Sial, called continents. Evidence in support of the Wegener hypothesis is the fact that Greenland, Earth's largest island, is drifting westward 65 ft. a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Pair of Skis | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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