Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the far reaches of southeastern Asia, Java, and the Phillippines a 25,000 mile ancient man hunt started from New York yesterday, when Dr. and Mrs. Hellmut do Terra sailed for England on the S.S. Manhattan...
...second place, the examinations are obligatory for students concentrating in Ancient or Modern Languages and must be taken this month by candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in 1939 and candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in 1938 who have not yet passed them...
...they accept these homely observations, readers will soon find themselves becoming as comfortably at home with the ages as Author Van Loon himself. He cosily assures them that the temples of ancient Greece were "as simple as a garage, and a one-car garage at that, for every temple was the home of one single Deity." Up through the centuries the author of The Story of Mankind mounts again, telling in words of one syllable whence the Etruscans presumably inherited the arch, what the Romans did with it, why the churches of the Middle Ages were made so tall...
...residents the ancient roadbed has long been "Vanderbilt's Folly"; when it was proposed to make it into a motor road, cynical post-War Pennsylvanians dubbed it "Dream Highway." Last week the first contracts were let for draining the tunnels and Pennsylvania prepared to spend $73,000,000 to make the dream come true. The new four lane road is the straightest practical line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, its 164½ miles being 40 miles shorter than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway...
What counsel has the hooded moon Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, Of love in ancient plenilune, Glory and stars beneath his feet- A sage that is but kith and kin With the comedian Capuchin...