Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual harvest of ancient neckties added a festive note to the heap of habiliments viewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. He was informed that these adornments, no matter how aged were always in demand, either among the Syrians of the Near East or the Ainus of the Far East. The most presentable suits will be kept for the poverty stricken of the United States, some of them being distributed in the vieinu of Cambridge...
...officer from the City of Cambridge came and told the Dramatic Club that The Barn is to be torn down this morning. The widening of Church Street has taken toil of several structures in the neighborhood, but had spared The Barn. Now it is the turn of that ancient and venerable building...
...skyscraper has already become a plague that we may well range alongside our ancient city scourges of cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and slums...
...curfew hours, the wearing of gowns (however abbreviated and however disreputably tattered), places to be seen in and not to be seen in, absence from town and other critical matters. Last fortnight a little grey pamphlet made its appearance in Oxford, containing many of these old rules, resurrected from ancient domesday books and dusted off, or written freshly to meet modern conditions. The booklet was entitled Memorandum on the Conduct and Discipline of Junior Members of the University (i.e., undergraduates) and set forth...
...Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...