Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large portion of the cost of management, leaving to the Federal Government the responsibility of investing, maintaining and safeguarding the funds constituting the necessary insurance reserves." Defenses: "This Congress has not only set an example of large vision for all time, but has almost consigned to oblivion our ancient habit of pork barrel legislation; to that we cannot and must not revert. ... It is childish to speak of recovery first and reconstruction afterward. "Ample scope is left for the exercise of private initiative. In fact, in the process of recovery, I am greatly hoping that repeated promises that private investment...
Mounting the first tee with quaking kness this afternoon, Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 will attempt to propel the white pellet far down the fairway, as the City of Cambridge formally opens its first venture into the ancient and honorable game of gowf...
When the Emperor learned that the 86-year-old hero could not live more than a day or two, he had him raised from a Count to a Marquis, sent him from the imperial cellars twelve bottles of ancient wine. Admiral Togo could not swallow, could scarcely speak, but he had not forgotten how to receive such honors. He had his ceremonial Japanese robes (the haori-hakama) spread over the end of his bed. For six years his wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles...
...articles about Elder Michaux and God. The Elder forbids smoking and drinking among his followers, enjoins fasting both as penance and as means of saving money for the Church of God and its charities. He accepts no salary, only a monthly offering. He has three automobiles, one an ancient Ruxton. His favorite observation: "I don't think God would like that." He also runs churches in Newport News and Baltimore. But for his biggest gatherings he needs large auditoriums or stadiums. Announcing all his programs as coming from "the banks of the Potomac," Elder Michaux sometimes conducts mammoth baptismal...
...Finishing School-Produced by RKO Radio. . . . An attempted seduction and an accomplished seduction. . . . Protest. . . . Protest. . . . "Glamour-Produced by Universal. . . . A stale and ancient plot. . . . Protest. . . . Protest...