Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, perpetuating an ancient myth, can help explode it. Artificial limbs are made of willow-metal; never of cork. I know. I've had to buy one every five years for half a century...
Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
...suspense. The prancing Senegalese is a faithful friend to Israel Dubois; seeing that his friend and the officer have bad blood between them, he starts for the Major with his knife, and Israel Dubois, who has drawn gun to shoot his white master, feels the tug of an ancient loyalty and kills his black friend instead...
Archaeologists were glad: In the Altai Mountains, along northern Tibet, Dr. Roerich found tombs like those of Ancient Goths in eastern Europe. Buckles ornamented with Goth-like double eagles strengthened his theory. Tibetans told him that anciently the country around Lhasa was called Gotha...
...history of journalism in Montana would read like the history of ... the most ancient of professions. Its history of late years is a most sordid and ugly record of daily newspapers owned and controlled by The Big Company and prostituted to its dirty work of controlling public opinion. These are the scarlet creatures of Montana journalism. The circulation and advertising of the Butte Miner have increased surprisingly since it announced its independence and appealed to the people to make a stand against further inroads on their rights...