Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President exclaimed with pride: "Child labor in this industry is here abolished. After years of fruitless effort and discussion this ancient atrocity went...
...groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which...
...Department Store Tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge held the rope of the great tenor bell. Shocked by the lapse of a British legend, he had paid for the restoration of Bow bells. He handed the rope to white-ton-sured Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. The oldsters of the Ancient Society of College Youths who traditionally ring the bells stood ready. Archbishop Lang leaned firmly on the bell-rope. Across Cheapside the great bell of Bow-said again."I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" The eleven smaller bells chimed...
...manner of Edward of Wales today-must be linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
...Harvard Yard, besides being a venerable area, a blessed couple of acres, owns that peculiar charm which belongs to things and institutions which have never known the labelling of a surveying committee, a place with its own ancient and particular name. Rough earthy Anglo-Saxon names, like the "Yard," "Rotten Row," Cape Cod," have an indigenous correctness which latinic titles ("Esplanade," "Boulevard" etc) can never claim, especially when transported to foreign soil...