Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Familiar with the liturgy from his visits with the monks in the ancient monastery on Mt. Athes, he has acted as adviser to the Russians in their restoration of a "lost", Byzantine church in Kiev. Through him a little known period of architecture takes on a vivid interest...
George W. Harley, research associate in Anthropology, recently reported the results of 12 years spent in Liberia studying the ancient and mystic religious rites of the African natives...
...offense for which he was censored was not obscenity, irreverence, intoxication or treason. His proposed remarks were considered antisocial, an offense against an ancient British institution: Fox Hunting...
...alternative to direct Japanese rule in the conquered portions of China, now of vast extent, is the installation of a new Chinese government, acting of course as puppets of Japan. At Peking, the ancient capital of China, a group of Chinese with Japanese blessing last week proclaimed themselves "The Provisional Government of the Republic of China." They also intimated that for some time to come their attempts at governing will be circumscribed roughly within a 780-mile radius southwest of Peking (see map, p. 13), although Japan has so far conquered a much smaller area (barred). Dr. Tang...
...boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring it, for better or worse, to their own ancient chants...