Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chic woman beside one of the virgins of the Parthenon, and that will be a sight to burst with laughter or weep with shame; any one of these Indians is a sister of that ancient. . . . The decoration is always simple, taken from familiar things of nature and craft; beauty of hard earth and birds, better than Solomon in all his glory; and put together with an abstract geometry such as only this people after the Greeks of Crete have possessed...
Carved out of black diorite, the statue shows Gudea, an ancient ruler in Southern Babylonia, seated on a stool, clasping his hands over his breast...
...ancient Egyptians," said the professor," believed that each man had not one but three souls. There was the shadow which like the body went to the grave and corrupted there. There was the immortal soul that went before Osiris for judgment...
...Ancient and Modern Palestine" will be the subject of a lecture by Khalil Totah, Principal of the Friend's School at Ramallah, Palestine, given at the Semitic Museum, Divinity Avenue, at 4 o'clock...
Last week, however, the ancient, lumbering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, recently rebuilt, taxied nearly two miles on the sea off Port Lyautey, Morocco, finally got into the air, remained there with its crew of six under veteran Pilot Henri Guillaumet until it had reached Maceio, Brazil, a nonstop seaplane flight 154 miles longer than the record of 3,281 miles, established by Lieut. Commander Knefler McGinnis between Cristobal Harbor, C. Z. and San Francisco Bay in October...