Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meaningless was that portion of the resolution designed to prevent any bondholder who can prove damages from collecting from the U. S. Taking refuge behind the ancient rule of law that the sovereign can not be sued without its consent, the resolution would withdraw "any consent which the U. S. may have given" to the assertion of any claim against the Government for payment in 100? dollars on any of its securities, coins or currencies. Besides closing the door to legal action, the resolution put an extra padlock on by providing that no money shall be disbursed from the Treasury...
...make her plans. Next day French Ambassador Charles Corbin called at the British Foreign Office for the promised papers, discovered that the British Admiralty had them and by secret agreement with Germany refused to let France have copies. In efforts to calm M. Corbin he was told of an "ancient statute" under which if the higher Admiralty officials feel the Government is endangering Britain's Naval security it becomes their "right and duty" to endanger it still further by resigning in a body. The mere threat of such an Admiralty strike, so M. Corbin was told, would mean national panic...
...were God," observed No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels a few days later, "I would select other spokesmen than those who now claim the right to speak for Him. . . . Many intellectuals are trying to help the Jews with the ancient phrase, 'the Jew is also a man.' Yes, he is a man but what sort of a man? The flea is also an animal...
...conveniently left behind an armored train lolling at a junction ten miles south-west of Peiping. Early one evening last week some 60 Chinese and Koreans in civilian clothes, armed and led by Mr. Pai Chien-wu, boarded the train, rallied the Chinese troops and set out for the ancient walls of Peiping. The track the train was on leads for about ten miles along the southern Outer Wall of Peiping, passes the great central gate of Yungtingmen and ducks through a tunnel into the Outer City. Pai Chien-wu, no soldier, had no plan of attack. And his enemy...
...reduced the candidates to eight finalists at the most who were then assembled in Manhattan for a final problem. This year, however, instead of being allowed to finish that problem at home where instructors sometimes lent a helping hand, four finalists were put through a test which suggested the ancient Pa-ku-wen of Imperial China.* In the exhibition hall of the Beaux-Arts Building carpenters built four little cubicles of composition board. Each was furnished with a drawing board, reading light, stool, ash trays, sets of drawing instruments and water colors. Just outside stood four army cots. Then...