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Word: ancient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning Dr. Ellis poked around London and Paris asking impertinent questions of men & women. Soon he discovered that most people like to talk about their sex life. Therefore he holed himself up with a great collection of books on the manners and customs of primitive and ancient peoples and let the concupiscent, the celibate and the sexually miserable beat a path to his study and tell him all. His marriage in 1891 to bubbling Edith M. O. Lees, who died in 1916, made his sage-in-the-study life practicable. Their only marriage vow was not to deceive one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Studies for All | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Describing an archeological expedition made to the ancient city of Van, Robert P. Blake, director of the University Library, told of the setting of the city yesterday in an illustrated lecture at the Semetic Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blake Describes Visit to Ancient City of Van in Asia Minor, Home of Former Rivals of Assyria | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

Beside the student committee there is also a faculty committee appointed from University Hall. The three men on it are: Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy and tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology, William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and Jeffries Wyman '23, assistant professor of Zoology and tutor in the Division of Biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROUP INVESTIGATES LABORATORY QUESTION | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

...Ancient eggs found in the tower of Memorial Hall are still a mystery, Dick Harlow, chief curator of such objects, being in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He will return next Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL EGG MYSTERY AWAITS RETURN OF OOLOGIST | 3/6/1936 | See Source »

...eggs were found when men from the Fire Station across the road were putting up an antenna for a new radio set. Two were reposing in an ancient nest, another lay broken on a balustrade below, all being 211 feet above the pavement. Ornithology may be permanently expanded as a science by the discovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL EGG MYSTERY AWAITS RETURN OF OOLOGIST | 3/6/1936 | See Source »

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