Word: hinterlands
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hunters there specially or buy up specimens caught casually. Last week in Manhattan, Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter (TIME, April 21), and Capt. Vladimir Perfilieff, artist-explorer (TIME, Dec. 30), revealed some of their plans for an expedition which will start shortly for Matto Grosso, high and wild Brazilian hinterland, to catch animals, sell them to U. S. zoos. David Newell, U. S. puma hunter, naturalist and author,* is going with them; also John Clarke and Francis Spaulding, Manhattan sportsmen...
Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...
...Little's speech is not the solution. His proposal to replace the present system with a series of psychological and intelligence quota tests is not plausible for two essential reasons. Not only does his plan verge on the hinterland of idealism and as such is too heavily embellished with the burden of impracticality, but it has the further disadvantage of serving as a tonic for a faltering system which needs a panacea. In scratching the surface, the College Boards, Dr. Little's "humanitarism" scrapes clean of the root of the whole trouble...