Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane and bus was lost for good & all; fare-cutting would merely reduce what little passenger revenue they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired gentleman from Kentucky who is generally the voice of the Southern carriers, tested the ancient law of price-cutting. Passenger traffic spurted upward. Soon a few Western roads slashed fares. Great Northern announced that local passenger traffic jumped 50%. Meeting in Chicago last fortnight the Western Association of Railway Executives voted to cut all fares in the territory west of Chicago, St. Louis...
...beds these drear days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...
...Conant did not crash, she just slipped in. "I did not get an invitation," we heard her confide to an ancient man of the faculty, "but I just came over to see, and brought the children...
...James Bryant Conant: You having been duly chosen to be president of Harvard University, I do now, in the name of its governing bodies, and in accordance with ancient custom, declare you are vested with all the powers and privileges of that office. . . . May you long be an ornament to the illustrious position that you now assume. In the dim future may men speak of the three great presidents of Harvard, as Eliot, Lowell, and Conant...
...Habsburg Court. Thousands of Hungarian Legitimists would like to restore "Little Otto," 20-year-old son of their late King Karl, but they know the extravagance of his regal mother Zita, fear she would insist that the State lavishly support dozens of penniless Habsburg archdukes. Last week in ancient Debrecsen, famed today for its tobacco-pipes, sausages and soap, Legitimists staged a monster pro-Otto rally several times disturbed by anti-Otto students who shouted "Long Live Horthy...