Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene was the western tip of the Seip Mound, near Bainbridge, Ohio. The diggers, Curator Harry C. Shetrone and Director C. W. Mills of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (Columbus), and Archaeologist Gerard Fowke, of Maysville, Ky. The remains seemed to be those of royal personages among the ancient Mound Builders-a late Stone Age race that threw, up its totemic burial tumuli from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...
...Fosdick accepted the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church. There he confronted a restless, skeptical, materially minded world with the ancient and eternal verities of religion...
...Lihue, on the island of Kauai, the men were given injections of morphine and put to bed in the dim alcoves of an ancient hotel to sleep the clock around. The Navy Department appointed Commander Rodgers Assistant Chief of the Aeronautics Bureau. In the U. S. thousands of mothers, reading of Mrs. Rodger's still, remarked: "Now will you wear your rubbers...
Admiral Bristol-High Commissioner of the U. S. at Constantinople since August, 1919-has probably exerted more influence upon the scenes of ancient civilization than nas any other American. No U. S. official is more highly respected by the statesmen of Europe and the Near East, and certainly none is better known...
Distinguished folk are often seen at Southampton, England, but seldom for longer than they are obliged to wrangle with British customs and baggage officials. Yet a fortnight ago some 2,000 distinguished folk entered that ancient town beside the River Itchen, and stayed there for the better part of two weeks, at the annual congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...