Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths...
...Earl of the entire peerage. He is the British aristocrat. Beside the Ducal House of Norfolk, the Royal House of Windsor is an upstart. Last week His Grace the Duke of Norfolk was informed that a cinema theatre at Stirling, Scotland was flying not the Union Jack but the ancient flag of Scotland, boldly flaunting the Lion Rampant...
...this emergency the 24-year-old Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England took counsel with his Roman Catholic advisers and his devout mother, the Baroness Herries. His Grace was advised that he could invoke an Act of Parliament making it illegal to fly the ancient flag of Scotland. Promptly he invoked the said Act last week, then retired into his usual aristocratic silence...
...great fossil beds in Central Asia. That region, argued Dr. Osborn, was the dispersal point for many species of animals. Man too must have originated there. Dr. Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test a dragon bone is to touch it to the tongue. If the sample clings to the tongue, it is genuine...
...this ground, the gigantic Andrewsarchus, greatest of all known flesh-eating land mammals, prowled at night, and fed upon the bodies of dying titanotheres. It was a world of nightmare creatures. The high plateaus of Africa today with their open plains and sparse forests offer a convincing parallel to ancient Mongolia...