Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock: Professor C. B. Gulick '90, chairman of the Department of Ancient Languages; Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton professor of Poetry; Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, chairman of the Department of Romance Languages, and Mrs. Ford; Professor Taylor Starck, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages...
...settle an ancient argument between farmers with poultry and fine gentlemen with horses and hounds, Virginia's Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries last week set aside $500 and made an announcement : The next 500 foxes killed in Virginia will be sent to the Commission, their stomachs examined, the question settled, once & for all, of just what a fox does...
After four hours and a quarter of Parsifal, last week's audience & critics found little to criticize except its length, the appearance of the ancient scenery, and the bedraggled condition of Parsifal's swan. They agreed they had been given something unusually fine...
...voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
There will be fewer men "wearing the seats of their pants shiny" on Chicago Great Western Railroad after Jan. 15, according to energetic, hard-fisted President Patrick H. Joyce (TIME, Nov. 16). Ancient tradition of railroading is that passenger departments must be represented by swank offices in the business and shopping centres of major cities. Convenient but expensive, this idea was challenged for the first time last week when Great Western announced it would abolish all such offices. Passengers in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis will have to go to the station for their tickets; the road will not even...