Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olympic games of ancient times: abolished in 389 A. D. by Christian Emperor Theodosius after having survived nearly 12 centuries. Sport history states that the last Olympic games ended in a riot brought on by bitter dispute between the Greeks who were strictly amateurs and the professionalized Romans...
...years. Anxious to be on hand when this happened, prodigious crowds swarmed over St. Andrews day after day. People pushed each other into ponds and bunkers.* Stewards shouted and waved red flags. Three times it took more than five minutes by the clock on the tower of the Royal & Ancient Clubhouse to clear the 18th fairway for the final hole, and each of these times the mob had come over in response to the news that Jones was in danger. The first time was when Jones was playing big Cyril Tolley, last year's British amateur champion, reckless, huge...
...Walker Cup players trying St. Andrews for the first time were amazed to find how primitive and ungroomed the Royal & Ancient course really is, with its public pathways worn by people crossing it on the way to the beach, its rough greens and sheep-cropped fairways, its gorse and hummocks and vague stretches of ground neither rough nor fairway...
Scholar Price says he first hunted up ancient alphabets, "including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Babylonian cuneiform, Semitic Phoenician, Greek, Hebrew and Roman and sat down to draw far-fetched conclusions...
...truce is over. A short period of preparation is left to the Military Corps to reenforce the shaky entrenchments and to roll the projectile-laden caissons to the front zone. Frightened recruits with a weakened morale await the attack side by side with hardened veterans bearing their ancient battle honors on the regimental standards. The estimable old lady of Mr. Auburn street again plays a relief role for Molly Stark, cramming the nervous soldiery with essentials and priming them with the finer point sof trench warfare. Last-minute instructions are issued by the tactical division as the coming campaign...