Word: knots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwestern South Dakota knot of mountains called the Black Hills are the richest U. S. gold mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres...
...story of Troy, now dispersed in mocking legend," says Author Riding, "was the first tight knot that history made in time." Whether or not her unraveling of that knot and its ensuing threads will please all masculine readers, it is an exploration of legend that turns up many a psychological find, pieces together many a broken sherd of human nature. Laura Riding does not tamper with the main outline of Troy's well-known story. But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks...
...Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part of the exhibition was devoted to specimens of the cubist, futurist and surrealist schools whose experiments with scientific form and fantastic subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety to untie it or the humor to let it alone. European surrealists have...
...history's most monstrous ambiguities, a weasel which has drenched Palestine in strife for 20 years. This week neutral opinion had not yet crystallized, but widely His Majesty's Government was beginning to receive credit for honest efforts to simply cut with one harsh stroke the Palestine Knot...
There is nothing more discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance...