Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many generations you can arrive at a "wellborn" hog and call it a Poland-China, or what not. But that's never been done with people, so why pretend it has? If a family can name its pappies and grandpappies for 300 years back, we call it an "ancient" family. And yet, 300 years amount to only about 12 generations. What is twelve generations, when it comes to breeding? In twelve generations of careful breeding you couldn't even eliminate the tendency to go to sleep in church. And there's no family under the sun that...
...scenes so nearly resemble the ancient slave mart as the annual winter meetings of the American and National baseball leagues. For three days owners and managers haggle, trade and sell players, vociferously deny the deals to newshawks, and then disperse, hopeful that their club will finish...
...propaganda of any sort, or of any attempt to show only the most favorable aspects of France. There was an absolute freedom and unrestraint of the type which should characterize any real effort at good will between the youth of two nations. Moreover, not only were the ancient glories of France displayed to the visitors but an intimate view was also given of the modern France. There was a visit to the Manufacture de Sevres where the famous porcelain wares are turned out; a tour of the Le Printemps, which is a leading department store; and an excursion...
...many years the firm of Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after...
...cabal of capricious tyrants whose sole purpose is to reduce the natives to a state of regimented slavery. 3) These irresponsible foreigners, having debased the currency, are now wilfully bankrupting the country. 4) The burden of debt and taxes is intolerable. 5) Local laws and customs are being flouted, ancient moral standards ridiculed, the pristine character of the working classes deliberately undermined. 6) Civil liberties, personal freedom, individual initiative and enterprise have virtually disappeared. 7) The U. S. would once more be a happy prosperous land if the misled people would only harken to their oldtime leaders, cast out those...