Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent in a rapid reconnaissance, covering 1,500 miles in New Mexico, Colorado, and the north of Texas. The traveling will be done by truck, and the party will usually camp out. The first place that will be visited is the northern basin of the Rio Grande, where ancient lakes will be studied. From there the party will go to the salt lakes in the enclosed basin of the Estancia, and across the plains of Eastern New Mexico, ending at the Carlsbad Caverns...
...which was later used in a play called Berkeley Square. But instead of plausibly explaining the hiatus which exists between the dead past and the present as did Berkeley Square, the playwright of The Great Barrington simply has the swashbuckling Barrington ancestors flit among their haughty descendants in the ancient house on the banks of the Hudson. It develops that the democratic daughter of the modern Barringtons wants to marry a poor but honest young man. She is thwarted, however, by her prideful parents who remind her of the duty she owes the memory of her sainted forebears...
Complacent Harvard hockey supporters were given a severe shock Saturday when an overconfident, favored, but unaggressive Crimson sextet went down to humiliating defeat before a Yale team that fought all the way, outplaying and outmanouvering its ancient rival to a final score...
...constrained by an illogical statute, file declarations of intention to complete in June requirements for degrees to which they have no just claim. Numerous candidates who are concentrating in the Arts will be awarded degrees in the Sciences because they did not present for admission the prescribed experience in Ancient Languages. Whether or not a graduate of the College is granted an A.B. or S.B. degree now depends on the number of units in the Ancient Languages he offers as an entering Freshman...
...wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near. Who, but a few old fossils, ever thought otherwise? . . . All these notions . . . were matters of common knowledge, away back in the times of ancient Greece." Fort thinks that the earth is practically stationary, that it is an organism, and that scientifically unexplained phenomena like rain from a clear sky or frogs from a cloudy one are organic self-adjustments, reflex actions...