Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small group of Harvard students are travelling to Lingnan University in Canton, where they will sleep on mats, cat rice, and absorb a blended education drawn from both Oriental and Occidental sources. The picture is a pleasing one--a Westernized institution of high standing set in the heart of ancient Cantonese culture, where the exchange of knowledge is fostered and developed. The picture lacks only one element, which may easily be supplied by the University authorities. Harvard should grant full credit and recognition to the work done by students in Canton...
...puppet Empire of Manchukuo, with the Japanese. Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
...music was not characteristic of the type of evolved Puritan usually to be found in the Harvard Corporation. If we admit that the evolution has been slow, it is nevertheless true that the Pierian Sodality, which 100 years ago had to rely wholly for its inspiration from those ancient springs its name was taken from, has shown us that music, both instrumental and choral has won a recognized place in University life. It is therefore fitting" Mr. Greene concluded, "that the Sodality and the Glee Club should have an active part in the Tercentenary Celebration...
...less than a century ago all good doctors believed that female hysterics were directly caused by a violent disturbance of the womb or hystera. This belief was an outgrowth of an ancient notion that the womb was a free-moving organ-"like an animal within an animal"-which at times roamed the body and tickled a woman to immoderate and uncontrollable laughter. This theory died only when it was clinically established that men could have hysterics no less than women. Best modern thought is that sex tension is only one of many causes of hysterics...
...daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away and Hannes left home too, to learn engineering. After the War he went back to farming again, and one day he inherited his father's ancient acres...