Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge vacated his official home for seven months in 1927 while a new $400,000 roof was being put on. The ancient wooden beams were replaced with steel girders, the entire structure fire-proofed...
...from the ruins of Nuzi, Iraq, 200 miles north of Bagdad. The city of Nuzi was destroyed by fire about 1500 B. C. and apparently was never rebuilt. The censer was found in a building which had probably been a temple or sanctuary on the principal mound of the ancient city and was used for the burning of incense before the gods. The city may have suffered destruction with the rise of Assyria...
...President's first worry was railroad accommodations; he wired ahead for three parlor car seats and was amazed to find a special train awaiting him. With him and his wife on that strained journey to the capital rode the Boston businessman named Stearns whose ancient dream of a Northampton mayor in the White House was coming true...
...green days of the Republic, this Constitutional rite was. a solemn thing, freighted with great uncertainty. Last week's vote-counting became an occasion for 40 minutes of horselaughs and whoopee. The outward forms, the ancient lines and cues, seemed as comical to those Congressmen who bothered to attend, as would have been the spectacle of a gentleman in knee breeches and powdered wig riding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a sulky...
...Ancient civilizations remind most of us at once of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and even in America there are few who realize the extent of the culture that was developed on our own continent before the Europeans arrived. One of the most interesting of these civilizations was that of the Mayas who reached a high point in sciences and the arts while still the victims of almost incredible superstitions. It will well repay the journey to Peabody Museum to hear Professor Dixon discuss them this morning at 11 o'clock...