Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union of states, must, if it is to survive, recognize change and give to new needs reasonable and constant help. . . People require and people are demanding up-to-date government in place of antiquated government, just as they are requiring and demanding Triborough Bridges in the place of ancient ferries." Beginning a three-week vacation as he entrained for Hyde Park immediately after the dedication ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home in high spirits. Four hundred Hyde Park Democrats, members of the 7-year-old Roosevelt Home Club, were waiting...
...their meal, beheld for the first time the final and complete version of Decisive Battles of the World. A 70-ft. mural by T. (for Tom) Loftin Johnson, it was not only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...
...retired magician I salute a fellow member of the ancient art of magic who performs in India under the name of Subbayah Pullavar and who thoroughly mystified P. T. Plunkett, the tea planter, and Pat Dove, the camera man, as well as the editorial staff of the Illustrated London News...
...past, have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have sold their heritage of freedom for the illusion of a living. They have yielded their democracy. I believe in my heart that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They begin to know that here in America we are waging a great war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is a war for the survival of democracy. . . . "I accept the commission you have tendered...
...made assistant sales manager, later assistant to the president, finally vice president. Forthright, aggressive Mr. Millsop has been in actual charge of Weirton since last summer, when the late President John C. Williams became fatally ill. A good mixer, Weirton's best labor handshaker, President Millsop likes ancient history, sports, goes to company baseball games in his shirtsleeves...