Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irela has refused to face the fact that she is about to sing her operatic swan-song. No longer can she reach her high notes without taking a second breath but the reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched her horses and dragged her carriage through the streets. It takes the competition of a Spanish singer and a paralytic stroke to bring home the crushing truth: that she must henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed...
...criticism he expects will parallel the criticism he aroused when he reported finding germs in archaic sedimentary rocks, ancient coal, deepwell petroleum: that bugs got into his specimens despite all his germicidal precautions...
...course the obvious answer to this sort of reasoning is that it is impossible to treat anything as a work of art unless it be thoroughly understood; which is only possible after long and careful study of the many details in which the ancient languages differ from modern. This work must be preliminary to any broader treatment of literature...
...Ancient & honorable is the Society of the Genesee, composed of successful men & women who were born in or near New York's Genesee Valley, or achieved success in the neighborhood.* Once a year they meet & eat in Manhattan to salute a paragon. Meeting & eating last week they saluted President Edward Bausch of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The event gave occasion for children with eyeglasses, students with microscopes, astronomers with telescopes, seafarers with binoculars, photographers with cameras, soldiers with range finders to learn what manner of man made their tools...
...ancient languages should be studied in advanced courses, as modern languages are, if their popularity is ever again to equal that of the modern languages. (Name withheld by request...