Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What two staunch Republicans spoke strongly last week for the ancient Democratic doctrine of state rights...
...indiscernible vagaries of his enslavement, through the darknesses of his neo-liberty with its mob-slaughter, lynching and stake-burnings, and finally into the hope and comprehensions of a new day. This graphic recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt before a window in his brother's house and fired he had done it in utterance of primitive antipathies. A bullet had pierced fatally one Leon E. Breiner, a citizen seated in his rocking chair at his home across the street, chatting...
From South and West Africa, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Transjordania, Tripoli, Tunis, Syria, Libya, Java, India there came to Cairo last week grave and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar
That the Graduate School is now able to further such a lifting of standards in education is most encouraging. An ancient sage whose name has long been associated with higher education considered it his grandest duty to instruct the youth of Athens. Too little respect has centered about those who have, in this particular tradition, followed Socrates. The Graduate School of Education at Harvard will surely induce more to respect the educator by making him respect his degree...
...gray goose, the barking golden eagle, the fleet azure kingfisher, the white triangles of lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains...