Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...privilege of knowing wherein he has erred on an examination--or wherein he has excelled, has no excuse for continuance. Granted that the ramifications of grading systems would require tedious explanations to disgruntled students. This is unfortunate. Nevertheless, a ruthless examination of the foundations of this ancient refusal will reveal that its roots lie deeply imbedded in laziness. The very fact that all bluebooks are not forever lost to undergraduate gaze once the ink has dried is evidence enough that common sense and an understanding of a defensible curiosity in the student has supplanted unreasonable and unreasoning tradition...
...fringed apron and an enormous belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round...
...respecting readers wear it next to their skins. Modern poets have always raised a storm of apprehensive, defensive abuse. Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity. But readers of 1936 think they have a better case against their poets than more ancient moderns did against theirs. Nervous readers, cornered and made to listen to the spoutings of W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, might fall asleep or get angry, but they would not understand more than a line or so in a dozen. Many a present-day poet along with...
...Wise Men still are with us and as wonderful today As on that ancient morning by a cradle lined with hay. They hand us not the incense or the precious oils of old, But an interest in birthdays that the years have not dispelled...
Respect the ancient fame of Jay and Marshall...