Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indian Nations. For prejudice-breaking value and charm nothing in the Fair surpassed an exhibition of American Indian art, housed in one wing of the handsome Federal building. To two kinds of visitors it gave pause and enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...
...into this structure an odd assortment of men, women and beasts. Famed Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a children's clinic for studying infant feeding and other phases of moppets' development. Psychobiologist Robert Mearns Yerkes brought his famed apes, clapped them into a huge cage atop one wing of the building and continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them up in another wing. With their paraphernalia of rats monkeys, cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists and a few Yale...
...Oakland dispatcher breathed easier. If Stead was where he said he was, he should be landing in 15 minutes. But troubles were piling up for the husky oldtime (8,650 hours) pilot like ice on a wing in a freezing rain. On he flew, but heard no cone of silence from the radio range which would have told him he was over Oakland, and Oakland heard nothing from him. Oakland waited...
Warren Winslow, who has been holding down the first line wing berth that DeRahm will take over, will go back to center position that he played last year, probably combining with Skip Ervin and Phil Cutler on the second line...
...Roland Jay Thomas, provisional president of the U. A. W. wing loyal to John L. Lewis, announced that locals including 268,442 (out of about 380,000) auto unionists have aligned themselves against Homer Martin...