Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization desired to make a test of the right of peaceful assemblage in Paterson in the face of Chief Tracey's arbitrary and unlawful stand in locking the silk workers out of their hall. The indictment was unwarranted and farfetched, resting as it did upon an ancient statute of 1796, under which no trial had been held in all the 128 years it has been on the books. We are paying a high price for our victory, but free speech still comes high in the United States...
Immediately following the spring recess, on Wednesday, April 29, the fifteenth annual group of divisional examinations will begin, to continue until May 21. The addition this year of Ancient and Modern Languages to the group of examinations marks the continued growth of the system...
...Anthropology will begin at 9.15 in Peabody Museum, the general examination in History and Literature will be held from 9 to 1 in Emerson -D, and a topical examination in Social Ethics from 9.30 to 12.30 in Emerson D. Friday afternoon from 2 to 4 an examination on Authors, Ancient and Modern, will be given in the New Lecture Hall...
Love for Love. There was a good deal of chop-licking on the part of the more unregenerate critics when this ancient bit of brittle Congreve chatter was released on the stage of the Greenwich Village Theatre. It proved to be one of the most unrestrained of the so-called immoral contributions to the season. Heywood Broun, in particular, was pleased by the display. He argued that a dirty play was perfectly admissible provided it was funny enough. Almost everyone agreed that it was funny enough...
...cattle, gardens, buildings, whole farms and villages were swept from the earth into the sea. The largest losses, practically total, were suffered by the guano* industry. Islands off Peru from which 119,000 tons of guano (nine million dollars' worth) were mined last year, were stripped of their ancient deposits by the deluge, which had the double effect of scouring and of converting the guano chemically into rapidly evaporating ammonias...