Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium's great Katanga Copper Company in the Congo. Third was their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff, they had come to carry out an ancient rite, to which Belgium, of all nations, now alone adheres. Their sole mission was to inform the President in person that Leopold III now sits on the throne of Belgium...
...vigorous personality and the skillfull discharge of his duties he has played an important part in demonstrating the superiority of the system of med- ical examiners as compared with the old coroner system. The ancient office of coroner involved such a combination of legal and medical duties as to make it unsuitable for complex, modern conditions. It was condemned in this state in 1878, and the medical examiners system was instituted. A recent survey of the situation by a committee of the National Research Council has led to the statement that the office of coroner is an anachronism, and should...
Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham...
...Mecklenburg deflates a good many of the supposed horrors and terrors of Russian life. Under Stalin religious persecution has cased. Free love is ancient history and divorce is becoming increasingly difficult:--at present the figures are not appreciably in advance of those in America. He notes the inefficiency of the Russian industrial plants--only two out of three automobiles will run out of the shop under their own power. But he thinks this inefficiency no worse than the unemployment of millions of men in the rest of the world...
...doctrines of Utopia he brought to Paris and he set them against the worldly knowledge of ancient Europe. Because he saw a vision he felt the people could not perish. In this spirit he sought to make a peace with the aid of a politician who had received his mandate from the people on the platform of "Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people...