Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week in Rome, in St. Peter's, was celebrated the silver jubilee of the day in 1900 when he became titular bishop of Nicaea. The ceremony was simple, because of the recent death of the Cardinal's mother. The great basilica was almost empty. With the ancient ritual, before assembled ecclesiastics, Merry del Val said mass. As he came down from the altar, the Te Deum of thanksgiving pealed forth...
...Nickel Plate, Hocking Valley and C. & O. It is evident from this step, that the old Congressional fear of "interlocking directorates," however obsolete and however inconsistent with a policy of favoring railroad consolidations, is not yet allayed. The minority C. & O. stockholders were greatly cheered over this investigation of ancient history, and the proponents of the proposed Nickel Plate merger were proportionately disappointed at the prospect of further official delay...
...seek to make the debate poetical, but I must recall the most ancient fame of this cheese [Roquefort]. Pliny the Elder and Julius Caesar extolled its fame as one of the best products of the Gauls. It resisted all invasions, inasmuch as, in the Dark Ages, charters included Roquefort cheeses in the tributes to be annually contributed to the stores of feudal lords. Other charters of Charles VI and VII and letters patent of Francis I and Louis XIII solemnly ruled that Roquefort cheese must be made with sheep's milk and aged in the natural grottos of Roquefort...
...Manly invited Mr. Wright to put up $10,000 which, with a like sum of his own, would recondition the ancient plane for flight. This offer was declined by Mr. Wright, who professed to have better uses for his money. Meanwhile, the plane, which may be hoisted once more by its own petard, retains the proud...
...This ancient tradition has a much broader aim, however, than the mere cataloguing of peculiarities, that is, individual peculiarities. It aims to give in a few striking details a bird's eye view of the entire class as revealed in its most characteristic likes and dislikes. Here are some of the results, quoted from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which show what four years of college have done for the Class...