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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were known to the Peruvian Indians in prehistoric times. Not long ago, there was litigation between certain twine manufactures over a "newly invented" method of winding twine into cylindrical packages. The controversy attracted the attention of an ethnologist, who showed that the method had been known and practiced for unknown generations in the Fiji Islands and Polynesia, in preparing packages of sennit, used in house building and for other domestic purposes...

Author: By Charles CLARK Willoughby, | Title: DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES SHOWN BY PEABODY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS | 5/5/1922 | See Source »

...revival of the famous "Chocolate Soldier" completely revamped, reset, and brought up to date with the usual Shubert thoroughness. The constant outcroppings of well-worn musical comedy tricks leads one to suspect considerable alteration from the original. There is mention of flappers as well as of other things quite unknown "when Hector was a lad", and the stage business is straight from Broadway. Indeed, it offered a strange contrast of methods to find the modified recitative of the original score standing side by side with stage capers of the Fred Stone school. Consequently, only the sureness and restraint...

Author: By W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

Coach Young will start Philip Spalding in the box today against the visitors, whose strength is practically unknown. Clark Hodder will take G. W. Burgess' place in left field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN TO PLAY GODDARD | 4/29/1922 | See Source »

...strength of the Clark University team is at present unknown, but their close match with the seconds last year which they lost by the score of 4-3, would seem to prophesy a close contest today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM TO MEET PROVIDENCE PLAYERS IN FIRST HOME MATCH | 4/29/1922 | See Source »

...somewhat like the Latin "volgus" or Greek "polloi" and may be rendered in English as "herd" or "clan". It was often used by the Incas to refer to cattle, though in this case it seems to imply some sort of men. The significance of the other two words is unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/30/1922 | See Source »

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