Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland is in the main stream of things modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich...
...African jungle. Spears flash through the murk, an elephant trumpets. Tom-tom-tom goes the tom-tom. The Voodoo Man warns his people, "All the gods are angry, all the clouds hang low." There must be human sacrifice. The Girl is chosen. As she walks into the stream to drown, the Boy creeps to the bank, plays on his flute. The Voodoo Man has him dragged away. A sacrificial procession. Tom-tom-tom. The Boy struggles in his bonds, the Voodoo Man leaps at him knife in hand. Comes a slave caravan, the Boy & Girl are chained together, carried away...
...Joseph Eugene Ransdell of Louisiana who as Senator from Louisiana got the National Institute of Health established, separately announced that Federal investigators are now working on cancer, leprosy, malaria, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pellagra, trachoma, tularemia, meningitis, infantile paralysis, heart disease, undulant fever, child hygiene, industrial hygiene, milk sanitation, stream pollution, water purification...
...flown over their villages were not evil. They would return. Each morning the Yawalapiti women prepared manioc cakes and beverage and the entire tribe turned their faces to the south praying that the return would be soon. It occurred after seven weeks of prayer. From a jungle stream paddled Vincent Petrullo, his guides shouting that they wanted welcome. The Yawalapiti chief headman, wearing a diadem of jaguar hide, greeted him skeptically. When explanations were over, every one laughed loudly about the Great Gods. The women formed in a line, with arms linked and the palms of hands held against each...
...Yale race is the one in which the real work is done, and improvement made, the Varsity and Jayvee crews took an unusually hard workout this morning, followed by another stiff paddle in the afternoon. In the morning spin, the eights covered about seven miles in all, rowing down stream, while in the afternoon, for the first time this year, they rowed five miles upstream and back, almost to Norwich for a change of scenery...