Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story. A seal found on Level Eleven depicted two men stirring a vat with long poles; the diggers took it to be the earliest known representation of a brewery...
...uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
This was so far off their reservation that the business congressmen fairly purpled. Up jumped the National Association of Manufacturers' General Counsel James A. Emery. Smoothing his morning coat and adjusting his Adam's apple to his wing collar, he cried in rebuttal...
Nils V. Nelson '20, Rene Beroy, Frank Ryan '23, Adolph W. Samborski '26, Arthur Sampson, James M. Sampson, Abe Savrann. Arthur Siegel, Neil Stanley Fred R. Sullivan '27, Harold Ulen Clarence B. Van Wyck, Frank J. Vanghan, Adam J. Walsh, Mclville Webb, Bernard D. White '32, Charles J. Whiteside, Stanley Woodward, Joseph Wright...
Overjoyed Harvard students are in the position of Adam and Eve when the bank foreclosed on Eden, because, even if the two-week vacation is rain from heaven, it seems to be given for this year only. But, being accustomed to such a paradise of leisure, Harvard men will not permit it to be taken away again. The University has taken a step in the right direction; its next must be to make a generous Christmas vacation a permanent part of the schedule...