Word: ancient
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...hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost of $100,000, with a marble bust of himself outside...
Died. Horatio Gordon Hutchinson, 73, British sportsman, writer, naturalist; in London. He is credited with much of golf's popularity in England through his fine playing and written descriptions of the game. In 1908 he was elected captain of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's, an honor accorded formerly to none but royalty...
...homosexuality the teacher is more likely than the doctor to have insight into the motivation, and in consequence is less,likely to treat the incident on the purely objective plane of social delinquency. It is true that in some of our boarding schools for boys, including certain very ancient foundations, there is no such advantage on either side, as neither master nor doctor has any psychological insight beyond that which may come to him by the light of nature. The situation is one which entirely satisfies the complacency of our racial traditionalism. It is not one, however, that...
...ancient greeks thought they had seen the goddess Aphrodite rise out of the sea foam (Aphros). Johannes Walther, professor of Geology & Paleontology of Halle University, Saxony, tells of having seen a visible phenomenon off the coast of Greece that might well have seemed a sea-rising Aphrodite to an unscientific eye. Writing lately in the scientific magazine Forschungen und Fortschritte, he described a day in Grecian waters when a snowstorm was gathering and the waves were high. As cold air struck the warm water, columns of white vapor rose from the sea. They were held suspended for a moment, then...
According to ancient Greek legend, Aphrodite is remembered as having risen naked from the sea, not in draperies. Also, she was a goddess of fair weather, "giver of prosperous voyages," would not likely have been born in a blizzard...