Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerusalem one day last week a young Jew named Aryeh Kotcher concealed something in his garments, got past a cordon of police without it being noticed, joined throngs of Jews praying at the ancient Wailing Wall. During a moment of silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized...
...number of ringers, in mathematical sequence. This strenuous pastime, popular in England (see Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors), involves varying the order of pealing bells so that no one succession of notes is repeated during the lengthy operation. In 1922 the Oxford Diocesan Guild and the Ancient Society of Youths rang 21,363 different changes at the rate of 28 a minute, a record...
...addition to its fundamental note, and when these are not all in tune with each other as well as with those of other bells, a prodigious jangling results. Thus a carillonneur must often rearrange a composition to allow for discords in his family of bells. Nevertheless, on the ancient bells of Alfred last week, Carillonneur Wesson performed a remarkable variety of tunes, ranging from Hail to Thee, Alfred to two movements from a Sonata for Carillon by Teinmerinaus...
Over $26,000 was spent in remodeling Stillman Infirmary in order to bring the ancient haven for the sick up to modern efficiency. Electrical equipment was installed, new medical equipment put in, fire escapes put in, the entry changed around, and practically the whole interior renovated during the summer...
...every American a Jim Farley. Instead, every Harvard man places foremost the fact that he represents no type, no product. Neither does a Harvard man have an accent. Certainly accents to exist in Cambridge; they are two kinds: Back Bay and affected. As for clothes, keep in mind the ancient aphorism: "Clothes make the Williams man, but the Radcliffe girl makes...