Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss Heimvehr Government is most likely to do for the Habsburgs is to allow Karl's body to be brought back to take its place among his ancestors in the Capuchin Church in Vienna, and to repeal the law exiling...
...aviator who claimed to have seen the capital city of the Queen of Sheba in a flight over a section of waste land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been...
...brief scaffolding of a plot outlined above. The book as a whole reminds one forcibly of the fortunate position which the Irish writer enjoys. Sean O'Faolain belongs to a culture which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual he is closer to the soil than Joyce ever was. The stripped and ungainly realism frequent in contemporary novels is not forced...
Occasion was the dedication of a copy of Virginia's ancient provincial Capitol, destroyed by fire in 1747, part of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s $12,000,000 scheme to restore Williamsburg to its 18th Century glory. At a joint session in the austere room of the House of Burgesses, the General Assembly of Virginia saw onetime Governors Davis, Trinkle, Byrd and Pollard on the dais, heard Governor Peery and Mr. Rockefeller speak. Said pious Mr. Rockefeller: "What a temptation to sit in silence and let the past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once...
...seven. Of these seven, three are ex-officio members of the Society, and three are elected for one year only. The ex-officio members are President Conant, Dean Hanford, and Professor Brinton, the corresponding secretary of the Harvard chapter. Those who were elected are Mason Hammond '25, Instructor in Ancient Languages, Charles C. Abbott '28, Instructor in Economics, Seth T. Gano '07, graduate treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa and Richard C. Curtis '16, prominent Boston lawyer...