Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight mile of tanbark along the southern edge of Hyde Park, is as sacred to British horsemen as Shakespeare's tomb is to poets, Westminster to statesmen. It is the King's Road (the name is a British attempt to pronounce Route du Rois), the path that ancient sovereigns took when they rode from Westminster to hunt in the royal forests. Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol. Here King George takes his genteel canters. Here the morning sun shines on the finest horses, the best cut breeches...
...impressed the Freshmen in History 1 and the graduates in History 29 were not always identical, but they were always virile and arresting. In essence they sprang from his ability to interpret history in terms of human motives, a talent which many lecturers inadvertently bury in the leaves of ancient volumes...
...Ferguson, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History, will be on sabbatical leave during the second half of 1932-33. E. F. Gay, professor of Economic History, will likewise be absent for the second half of 1932-33 and the first half...
...standing. Flushed with a sense of sudden accomplishment, he took up last week another ancient legislative favorite of his ?government operation of Muscle Shoals ?and got the Agriculture Committee to report it favorably to the Senate...
Indiana's limestone deposits were formed aeons ago when the land was the floor of an ancient sea, peopled with small, shell-bearing animalcules. Dying, these formed massive beds of oolite. Until 1904 only a few quarries existed around Bedford but that year a big impetus was given to quarrying with the invention of a new type of circular saw. In 1926 Indiana Limestone was formed to merge 24 small companies. Behind the deal was Lawrence Harley Whiting of Chicago, president of the investment banking house of Whiting & Co. For president and chief operating executive he chose an oldtime...