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Word: ancient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indispensable to the accomodation of classes that it would be impossible to close it for alterations at the present time, the firetrap must be made at least somewhat safe at the first opportunity. Christmas vacation would afford sufficient time to do a temporary piece of reconstruction on the ancient building. This would entail widening of the corridors at the expense of the size of the classrooms, the construction of broader stairways, and an additional entrance to the building. It is a step the University should have taken long ago in the interest of general safety and can be delayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM PIECE | 10/17/1935 | See Source »

...Swedish missionaries,* and in it at the time of the raid was a U. S. Negro aviator from Chicago, John Robinson, known to correspondents as "The Brown Condor of Ethiopia." Condor Robinson's task was to ferry dispatches from Addis Ababa to provincial Ethiopian commanders in an ancient monoplane. Back in Addis Ababa last week he was able to give foreign correspondents an accurate description of the first casualties of the war. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Solemn Hours | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...Hymn No. 279 was written by the most famed U. S. pulpit orator of this generation, Harry Emerson Fosdick: God of grace and God of glory, on thy people pour thy power; Crown thine ancient Church's story, bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage. For the facing of this hour, for the facing of this hour. Thanks to Dean Robert Guy Mc-Cutchan of DePauw University, Methodists are given some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hymns for 8,000,000 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

This person advertises himself as an authority on English and American History, Europe since 1914, International Relations, Economics, Finance, Psychology, Anthropology, Archeology, Geography, Journalism, Classical Civics, History of Art, History of Music, sociology, American Society, Biology, Education (a specialty), American Society, English French, and German Literature, ancient History, Government, Philosophy, Religion, English Constitutional History and any subject throughout the entire sweep of English Literature, novels, plays essays, etcetera." It is hardly possible that this most credite creature in view of all else he has mastered, should be a stranger to the intricate ramifications of the highly specialized art of blackmail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVERY MAN A GHOST | 10/11/1935 | See Source »

...full length portrait of a Chinese nobleman, a product of the Ming-Ching period, which, translated, means late 17th or early 18th century, is considered to have been the collector's favorite. At the opposite extreme are four tiny landscapes, their lines barely visible on the ancient, faded silk. Of even greater age is a 12th century South Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/9/1935 | See Source »

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