Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to forget the spying vampire. Through Suzy's efforts Mata Hari was arrested, convicted; her husband was given the tasty job of commanding the firing squad. Soon after, he went off to the front, was glad to be killed. Suzy, by now indistinguishable from a lady of the ancient regime, married another French nobleman. But this one was bald, had no yearning for vampires...
...conducted next spring in the high Himalayas of British India by the Fatigue Laboratory of Harvard University, in co-operation with Cambridge University, England, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Field work will be carried on for five months from abase camp at 17,500 feet near Leh, the ancient capitol of Little Tibet...
...constitution of our universe, but the history of astronomical though from the earliest times. The reader with but a mild interest in the subject matter will find in it a fascinating tale, easy to pick up, next to impossible to lay down. It is another proof of the ancient dictum that the truly great man is he who can express the most complicated of thoughts without resorting to involved phraseology as a sort of camouflage...
...Anglican prelate signs his given name to that of his diocese or archdiocese. "Cantuar" is an abbreviation of the ancient Latin name of the diocese of Canterbury...
...devised for undergraduates, it still seems wise to allow a man the chance to take one of them as part of a requirement, and since their study leads one to logical thinking somewhat in the nature of mathematical lines, it seems advisable to suggest that either one ancient language or Mathematics may be offered to satisfy one distribution requirement...