Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barcelona are by far the largest in Spain today", he continued, "having replaced Salamanca which flourished alone in the days of the Moors. The students naturally flock to the capital, Madrid, and to the largest commercial center, Barcelona, the result being that only 400 students occupy the tremendous and ancient buildings at Salamanca. One of the most remarkable things about these Spanish Universities is that it is only within the last few years that they have started to teach modern languages. Tied up, as they have been, with tradition, they have taught Arabic, Greek, and Latin as the standard course...
Sold: Seventy-nine yearling trotters, year's product of the famed Walnut Hall Breeding Farm of Lexington, Ky., for $96,350. Steel. To save the skilled clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...
...husbands a great endowment. All these things Harvard has been and more or less still is in such fashion that not only her sons but the general citizenry may think of her as a type. And especially is this true of the changes which have been worked in the ancient institution...
...other years returning to the outsider visiting the impression of the University comes in the form of a campus. At Harvard it is called The Yard. The original Yard has expanded its glorious elms dying of the gypsy moth have given place to red oaks or other trees the ancient wooden fence is replaced by delightful wrought iron and brick. Coming out of the subway one crosses riskily the traffic torrent in "Mass" Avenue turns to look across the hurly burly of what was once a quiet country square enters the Yard. There past a copper beech lies a long...
...Bernadotte, wife of King Gustav's nephew. Purpose: to be on hand at the prospective birth of a grandchild. Manhattanites were talking about Raymond Duncan, eldest brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan.- He arrived in their midst as Paris has known him for years-clad as an ancient Greek. Manhattan pedestrians gaped at his homespun toga, his sandals, his long-flowing, fillet-bound locks. Apostle...