Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional nine-tiered umbrella, symbol of regal power, King Ananda strode down the red-carpeted gangplank to greet the three royal Regents who have ruled in his absence. Strong Man Phya Phahol judiciously kept in the background. Along the city streets, as His Majesty jounced and saluted on his way to the royal palace, 500,000 of his flat-faced, olive-skinned subjects cheered and showed their betel-reddened teeth in wide grins of welcome...
...takes up Herbert Read, the English enthusiast, on an incautious statement that "academic'' art began in the 14th Century with "the desire to reproduce in some way exactly what the eye sees." Analyst Herter has an easy time proving that this was no more true of the 14th than of the ist Century, that great artists never wanted to be copyists of nature, but were imaginative and expressive, that...
...Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...
...way to de-emphasize football is to hold the games in the morning. Another is to quit subsidizing players. The University of Pittsburgh, whose eleven is justly famed, seemed to have taken the second course last week. It ordered 22 freshman football players to pay the promissory notes they had signed for the first semester's tuition...
...football teams under Coach Jock Sutherland (three of the famed "dream backfield" men are seniors) there was some solace in the brilliant performance of Halfback Dick Cassiano, lone junior of the harmonious quartet. Almost singlehanded, he scored three touchdowns, all on spectacular open-field runs that went a long way toward blasting an exceptionally good Penn State team...