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Word: african (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touchdown: "artists' voyages after his time lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Two Clear Ones | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Berlin Mission Society (Protestant) has founded a trading company, South African Motors, Import and Industries, Ltd., made a deal with the Government. Its missionaries sell German goods abroad. The Reich treasury gets most of the foreign exchange thus obtained, the missions get a slight commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Converts & Customers | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...descended, black, divine-souled African, large, fine-headed, nobly-formed, superbly-destined, on equal terms with...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...British proposal to settle German refugees in their East African colonies was labeled "a forlorn hope" by Dewent Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography and expert on Africa, in an interview with the CRIMSON last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Whittlesey Doubts African Plan for Refugees | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...other members of the royal family took place last week at the Windsor suite in the swank Hotel Meurice in Paris. The Duke's next to youngest brother, the Duke of Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring the Duke of Windsor back into the royal family circle. The King's private plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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