Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...
...Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 60, lives in a ten-room Spanish mansion, No. 4440 Braeburn Road. San Diego, Calif. Last week he deeded No. 4440 Braeburn Road, an adjacent two-car garage and a pair of automobiles to King David, Gedeon, Barak, Samson. Jephthae, Samuel and sundry other mighties of ancient Palestine. Positive is he that they are shortly to reappear on earth. Said he: "I have purposely landscaped the place with palm and olive trees so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come to offer man the chance to become perfect...
...directed by H. Spencer Lewis, Imperator for North America, onetime Jew ish salesman, is joined to an international brotherhood conducted, like Freemasonry, on the lodge system. It extols good citizenship, patriotism, scientific and cultural self-improvement. Its primary significance is not religious. It claims descent from an occult and ancient line supposedly including the Egyptian sages and Sir Fran cis Bacon. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson.* Its ritual is elaborate, archaic, Egyptian in symbolism. Imperator Lewis recently threatened suit against Mrs. Heindel of Oceanside because she employed the term Rosicrucian in connection with her fellowship...
...shafts when they were put on the market. He gave them a fair trial, repudiated the idea that they were invested with magic qualities which would make a good golfer out of a bad one, defended their use in tournaments against the U. S. G. A. and the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. He announced that his first acts as Tsar of the P. G. A. would be to raise the membership fees, so as to get some money in the treasury; to give a $1,000 insurance policy with each membership; to guarantee larger discounts on supplies...
...such a question, the college undergraduate would reply that mathematics still exist and that the sciences have partially taken the place of the classics. It is true, however, that specialization in college is often attempted without a sure foundation in the ancient fundamentals. In directing his criticism against the type of faddism that allows each preparatory school student to choose the subjects that he likes, Mr. Taft touches a sensitive spot in modern education...