Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the increase of comparative literacy, cheap postage, the typewriter and so on, the supposedly retiring tribe of authors share with cinema folk in the deluge of unsolicited advice, enquiries, compliments, brickbats, heart-histories. Share ? The most prominent are fairly drowned with "fan-mail." They are driven to printed forms of reply, to private secretaries who do nothing but " answer...
...salvaged 9,000 acres of timber. The work of collecting, sorting, and baling the paper was done by the "down but not outers." For the Goddess. The third chapter of II Kings gives an account of human sacrifice to appease an angry god. Last week six members of a tribe in southern Rhodesia were convicted of murder. They had burned to death one Manduza in order to appease the rain goddess whom they thought he had violated. No rain had fallen for weeks, and it was held by them that he had caused the drought by offering her violence...
...where you have in the sciences as in jail, go against the idea which we have formed of the unity of knowledge. I have never very plainly known, here at Harvard, whether I was an economist gone astray in the historical field, or an historian lost among the economic tribe, being actually a man whose ambition is nothing but to put in their true light the economic features in history...
Geographers, like the christeners of Pullman cars, are sometimes hard put to it to find appropriate names. The Department of the Interior, when it named one of its western Indian Reservations, thought that "Moqui" was a good Indian word and suitable enough for the tribe. But the tribe, with some reason, showed annoyance, for it transpired that "Moqui" means "Dead Ones...
Geographers, like the christeners of Pullman cars, are sometimes hard put to it to find appropriate names. The Department of the Interior, when it named one of its western Indian Reservations, thought that "Moqui" was a good Indian word and suitable enough for the tribe. But the tribe, with some reason showed annoyance, for it transpired that "Moqui" means "Dead Ones...