Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President attended graduation exercises at West Point, told a new class of second lieutenants that they must think of their responsibilities to the U. S. in peace as well as in war. Then, in a practical-joking mood, he returned to Washington to review the final parade of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request two of his best Roman Catholic advisers, Postmaster General Farley and SEChairman...
CHARLES SCHUCHERT: Eminent paleontologist of Yale who has mapped the ancient seas and fathomed the geologic past...
Thus TIME (June 18, 1923) reported the last convention held in Washington by the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and the part Shriner Warren Gamaliel Harding had to play...
...afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert as an immensely aristocratic institution...
Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...