Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those of waiters, window-washers, snow shovelers, clerks, tutors, entertainers, and chore workers. Within the University, much work has been done in the various buildings, in the way of repairs and new construction. In the Peabody Museum at present, a student is repairing a totem pole, others are mending ancient skeletons, and cementing excavated fragments of pottery...
...ancient principles of justice, to old that they have seemed to be part of our conception of fair dealing from time immemorial, have been rewritten by the Roosevelt revolution...
...possible. But of the tons of treasure that went back to Spain, all was melted up or disappeared, and for four centuries no concrete trace of the Coclés came to light. About 30 years ago the Rio Grande de Coclé shifted its course, cut through an ancient Coclé burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They went ashore, scooped up enough shining things to buy many jars of heady chicha. Soon Harvard's Peabody Museum heard of the curiously...
Yugo-Slavia is one of the richest and last known regions in Europe, from the stand point of ancient civilizations, for this area was the first recipient of Original culture, and in its turn, transmitted the new traits to the rest of continental Europe...
Fantastic stories of hidden treasures are often found in the Balkans, due to chance discoveries of ancient coins by natives. Members of the expedition were guided to many sites by peasants who had found antiquities when plowing, or who had obtained stones for building from some ancient ruin. Native traditions and correspondences in present and ancient place names were helpful to the archeologists, as was the assistance given by schoolmasters and gendarmes...