Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Odyssean poem." he ventured, "seems to be the work of one man, highly literate and a great poet." Contrary-minded professors fear that the works of "Homer" are an ancient hash, comprising the efforts of several great poets and ballad singers, not all of them literate...
...this ornate red & gold chamber, where the late Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau promulgated the Covenant of the League of Nations in 1919, his ancient enemy Aristide Briand convened the League Council in extraordinary session last week. Twice before this autumn the Council had met at Geneva (TIME, Oct. 5; Oct. 26), had failed both times to pacify China and Japan...
...tokens to bring their sons safely home again. Those who could afford it hung duck paintings by the man whom conservative Japanese regard as the greatest living wild fowl painter: Tetsuzan Hori, head of the Tokyo and Kyoto Fine Art Schools, one of the last exponents of the ancient Shijo school of naturalistic painters...
...romanticized piece of history for light reading, then, M. Delayen may have succeeded, but beyond this point very little is to be said. Throughout the book there are footnotes which, when looked up in the back, refer to ancient authors and authorities for his statements. As references they are completely impossible because of the vague character of most of them. For example, one reference says, "of, Zenophon, Aristophanes, Thueydides, Demosthenes, etc." This would seem to be an attempt to make a novel look like a really critical and scholarly piece of work, which it certainly is not. Furthermore, the text...
...ancient mace, used in the Provincial Court of Massachusetts in pre-Revolutionary days, will be carried into the court room of Langdell Hall tonight at 8 o'clock to officially open the semi-final arguments of the Ames competition...