Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...including Swimmers, full-length nude boys seen through transparent green water; After the Bath, a young woman emerging from the sea in a clinging yellow bathing suit, while her swain stands behind, holding a white sheet in which to wrap her; Beaching the Boat, Valencia, peasant sailors guiding three yoke of brown oxen, dragging the full-bellied sailboat through the surf. Sorolla is also represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid and Buenos Aires Museums, the Chicago Art Institute, and in many private collections of the United States and Europe. But his crowning work...
...There is a very good touch at the beginning when the great, long column of clumsy schooners is waiting for the command to be off. The leader of the expedition hands his boy a great bull-whip and as the youngster cracks it over the backs of the first yoke of oxen his father tells him to remember that he started the first expedition to Oregon back in '48. The scene at the crossing of the Platte River is beautifully done, and gives more of a thrill than any of the other big moments, and there were many...
...proposes to drive upper class men under the Freshman yoke of compulsion. But the old ideal of "mens sana in corpore sano" is one which a certain proportion of students will always overlook. Time is limited; the man for whom exercise is now particular pleasure does not always find it easy break into the afternoon for a game of tennis or squash or a row on the river; often, too, it is difficult to find partners or facilities. The temptation of the easiest way is to let exercise slip, or to put up with the old-man's expedient...
...quote Senior Quezon's declaration before Congress in reply to the frequent query of "Wry should not the Filipino people be content with American rule?" "I will answer", he said, "in the language of that great apostle of human freedom, Daniel Webster. 'No matter how easy may be the yoke imposed by a foreign power, if it is not imposed by the voice of his own nation and his own people, he will not, he cannot, and he means not to be happy under its burden." Mr. Quezon concludes: "And we can be friends, only if we are not your...
Another interesting, but perhaps irrelevant, discovery of ours relates to the South American domestic animal, the Ilama, still much used in these regions. The method of employing these creatures is unique. They are put in pairs, and a yoke is simply placed across their necks with projections hanging down on either side, but not fastened below. Obviously, in order to escape, all one of the beasts needs to do is to lower his head; but by a sort of stubborn pride they always bear their heads high, and are never known to escape. We have found Ilama bones in many...