Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspicious attitude is unfortunate but necessary), and by this vigilance and by the severity of the punishment inflicted, they should fill the hearts of would-be wrongdoers with great doubts. Moreover, professors should be wary of assigning the same essay topics several years in a row, because stacks of ancient essays have a habit of developing in out-of-the-way corners of the college...
Rare chords of an ancient 1700 Stradivarius and a Guarnerius met an electric test of science yesterday in the laboratory of Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, in an attempt to discover whether modern technique can surpass the art of the famous Italian masters...
...ancient controversy over nature v. nurture is beside the mark, for intelligence depends upon nature & nurture...
...swung around after Hitler seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said was the ancient home of the Queen of Sheba, but about which experts were noncommittal. A natural scholar, Malraux knows Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian, as well as Sanskrit, Chinese and minor Oriental tongues, was working on a big book of esthetic theory, The Psychology of Art, when the Spanish Civil War broke...
...institution as ancient as Harvard," he said, "and with the traditions in which Harvard has justifiable pride, should serve as an inspiration and model to the remainder of the community. The students should have a more decent regard for the rights of their fellow men. In my judgement it is essential that this should be enforced by the University if it is to hold the esteem of the public which it has enjoyed in the past...