Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From erudite Berlin savant Dr. Karl Plumeyer, Realmleader Hitler learned last week that "Adolf is an ancient and valorous name derived from the Edelwolf or Noble Wolf, a victory-and-fortune-promising animal...
...that year. It was clear then that before man-made records were dreamed of, the trees were faithfully inscribing rainfall records in their hearts. To patch together a continuous rainfall calendar it remained for Douglass to match thickness & thinness sequences from innumerable pieces of wood, new, middle-aged and ancient. Later work with the Carnegie Institution's help took the record back to pre-Christian dates...
...general, uniform designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon...
...kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone, mantled in green moss, frogs sprawling on their shoulders, their fallen heads beside them, pitted and time-scarred." Claude has a theory that somewhere along the ancient Royal Way-now the jungle-covered boundary between Siam and the "unpacified area"-are undiscovered temples with valuable carvings, perhaps treasure...
...barbers of the nation however, should not take the implications of this statement too much to heart. They should remember that they are practitioners of an ancient and honorable craft, one that enjoys the tradition of having served as a forerunner of modern surgery. Their professional traditions are immeasurably older than those of the Kentucky colonels...