Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which struck farther up the northern Atlantic Coast last fortnight. Blowing up from some 25 miles in the interior, the first twister knocked down a row of Negroes' houses near the Ashley River. Within seven minutes, another twister licked down Meeting Street, along the Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists. A third blow skirted Charleston proper, whisked off a dozen cottages on Sullivan's Island...
...Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient shells where legend places the public slave market-a matter of sore denial by Charleston historians, who say Charleston's slaves were sold in decent privacy. Unscathed save for their gardens were the mansions along South Battery, many now owned by Northerners. Storm-conscious Harry Hopkins found, when he arrived...
...simplified spelling, championing prohibition, loans at 1% to make America the world's workshop, Esperanto, anti-Darwinism, community ownership of natural wealth, and a slipknot of his own devising. Philadelphia reporters liked to drop in and chat with him on his birthdays, listen to him play his ancient reed organ. They went around to the little house in North 18th Street one day last week, but not to get a birthday story. They came to ask about the funeral arrangements...
...conclude that the inhabitants of the present world were half-literate savages gifted with great engineering ability. But if future diggers explored the broad Mesopotamian valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, in what is now Iraq, they would find thousands of clay tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians and Babylonians. Deciphering these, the diggers would read of civilizations 3,000 years or more before the Christian era, would probably conclude that here was the peak of enlightenment which their predecessors on earth had reached. So argued Edward Chiera, late professor of Assyriology at the University...
Thus Coach Dick had ample excuse to push his Varsity, or rather what was left of them, for center Tim Russell, tackle Tom Healey, and blocker Chief Boston were beset with Ancient Author exams until signal drill, and right guard Dave Glueck had to be held from scrimmage, since he is still suffering from Bruin pounding...