Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abyssinians considered as a restitution rather than a gift several trunksfull of ancient Abyssinian documents brought back by the Duke of Gloucester last week, originally carried off if not stolen by British troops...
...Temple of Earth is square and yellow. The Temple of Heaven is round and beautifully blue. Moldering, these majestic edifices stand in ancient Peking. When China was an empire, and that was but 19 years ago, the "Son of Heaven" alone was privileged to offer sacrifice to Heaven, Earth and the Great Ancestors. The bulk of the Chinese rabble scarcely had a religion. What they believed was that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity...
...Since then he has done hundreds, expects to do many more. Privately he hates society jobs, quotes his friend the late great John Singer Sargent that "portrait painting, my boy, is a pimp's profession." One portrait, however, that he thoroughly enjoyed was that of faithful James Miller, ancient, honorable red-nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture, feared that its exhibition might bring Princeton and the Ivy Club into disrepute, suggested the substitution of a coffee...
Last week, George Ross Robertson, professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, reported to the American Chemical Society that California financiers and scientists are developing the ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...
...reigned. Horns were blown continuously, windows were broken and furniture was smashed. Effigies of several prominent faculty members were stoned, tortured, burned, and hanged. This uprising, always referred to as "The Great Awakening" was followed by the dismissal of eleven men and virtually dealt the death blow to the ancient art of horn blowing, in Hanover at least...