Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested with the Sword. Fortunately...
...ancient, exciting Christian belief in God's solicitude for the individual soul was something Harry Patterson worked out for himself. It was a limited achievement because Harry never got much farther than the knowledge that God was looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew...
...most of the year Central City is a scraggly little Colorado mining town (pop. 572) asleep in the memory of an ancient glamor. But for two or three weeks in the summer it is crowded with well-dressed visitors, most of them having a fine time and many of them tipsy. Last week the town was crowded and the focus of festivity was the Central City Opera House...
...attack on Fascism, there might have been likelier promoters than Churchman Brown, the scion of the banking Brown Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President...
...from Earth at six miles per second (present distance: nearly two quadrillion miles). To Babylonians the naked eye stars were ''The Many Little Ones," to American Indians "The Seven Brothers." In some folklore they are called "The Seven Who Now Are Six.'' as though an ancient memory persisted that the dim star, which can be seen only by keen eyes on clear nights, was once a match for its sisters...