Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been held in Manhattan, Paris, London (TIME, April 119th). Plain gallery-goers sometimes find it difficult to understand much of an art which has nothing whatever to do with the civilized European concept of Beauty, but which stems directly from the basic emotion of fear. But one fact is plain to all eyes: in any showing of African art the bronzes and carvings of the vanished Kingdom...
Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association the young researchers announced excellent results with a combination of 10% carbon dioxide and 90% oxygen, administered through an ordinary ether mask. Not for plain disagreeable drunks is their treatment, emphasized the doctors, but only for desperate drunks with slow, jerky breath, faint pulse, dilated pupils, cold bluish skin...
Last week, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation. Said Charles F. Bauman, secretary of the Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right...
Last year's Freshman mitmen have contributed a powerhouse of material in the persons of Arthur Rotche '38, who was undefeated in his first-year of collegiate competition, and John Duane '38 finalist in the Golden Gloves boxing matches at Chicago, sponsored by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. Richard F. Baum '37, undefeated during his Freshman year, is back again to stir things up in the 155-pound class with A. H. Corbett '37, whose injured hands last season forced him out of the running, but who now has a clean bill of health from the doctor...
Walter Hines Page II '37, of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., succeeds F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, of Jamaica Plain, as varsity football manager for the 1936 team, it was announced Saturday evening at the Football banquet at the Ritz...