Word: nissen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hebraic incantations of Elohim and Adonai a sacred promise was made in Detroit one night last week. The Jew Sender ben Henie swore before Jehovah that, if his unborn child should be a girl, he would marry her to the son of his faithful neighbor Nissen. But Nissen died leaving his son poor while Sender grew rich and increasingly greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years...
...stage strangely dark the pact between Sender and Nissen was pledged in such a leisurely prolog that many a Detroiter shifted uneasily, began to fear for the evening to come. First act picked up when the scene changed to the interior of a synagog. Comics were the bearded batlans who droned their prayers for a kopek or two, spent their earnings on vodka. A tragic, pale-faced figure was Hanan, Nissen's son, torn between the Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally...
Apes. The Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology have a colony of about 40 chimpanzees which, because sexual and social experiments are constantly in progress, make frequent news. Last week Dr. Henry Wieghorst Nissen and Meredith P. Crawford ran off motion pictures showing altruism and co-operation among the apes. When one animal had food and another in an adjoining cage had none, the hungry one would beg by thrusting his hand through the bars. Often the other chimpanzee would share his food, especially if the two were well acquainted. Sometimes, however, the ape with food would simply shake hands with...
110th Company; Riley, S. Woods, r.e.; Lepper, Carden, r.t.; Conley, r.g.; Bowley, Haight, c.; Oakland, Durant, l.g.; Gowash, l.t.; Flahwick, R. Woods, Ryland, l.e.; Nissen, Tierney, q.b.; Genna, Blakely, r.h.b.; Barthelmess, LeBlane, l.h.b.; Vitale, King...
...forestry team is coached by Lieutenant F. Victor Nissen '29, a former Harvard track man. His eleven has already played a game with the Andover Jayvees, in which the prep school boys came...