Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, "our senior citizens." It came at a very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning to see the possibility of making pensions for senior citizens a juicier political racket than the ancient political exploitation of pensions for war veterans. Sheridan Downey won California's Democratic nomination for Senator from Senior Citizen William Gibbs McAdoo, 75. The manager of that performance was one Jackson Elliott...
...contrary, Berlin was becoming alarmed lest Poland and Hungary succeed between them in grabbing the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and fortifying it as a bulwark against the ultimately scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which...
...This ancient body (founded in 1562), devoted to the spread of religious teaching, did not reach the U. S. until 1903, did not hold annual meetings in the U. S. until four years ago. Last week 5,000 Catholics gathered in Hartford, Conn, for the Confraternity's Catechetical Congress - so called because catechetical is the adjectival form of catechism, which means teaching. At the Congress were introduced two new aids to Catholic teaching: a revised catechism, a gospel newly put into English...
...comparing a motor car to a bag of potatoes. Mr. Richards believes metaphors (comparisons) are the root of thinking, and that no metaphor is absurd if there is a specific and intelligible link between the things compared. Mr. Richards recalls that a Harvard English professor once christened his ancient Ford Thaïs (after the heroine of Anatole France's story) because "she had been possessed of many." "If we can do that to a car, successfully," twinkles Mr. Richards, "what limits can we confidently set to metaphor...
...chapters which tell what has been decoded from the tablets. Dr. Chiera gives a fascinating, chatty picture of the daily lives of the ancient Mesopotamian peoples, which he says are now better known than the ordinary lives of the later Greeks and Romans despite their elegant literature. Born to a Baptist minister in Italy in 1885, Dr. Chiera studied theology but plumped for archeology, joined the University of Chicago staff in 1927. Thin, slope-shouldered and bearded, he resembled the popular idea of a scientist, was noted for boundless energy and painstaking preciseness in his work...