Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ancient practices in modern dress was the characterization of the Japanese Constitution given by Arthur E. Hindmarsh, instructor of Government, in a lecture broadcast over station W1XAL last night...
Have ye Editors joined the ancient and dishonorable order of TIME-killers? Since my first discovery of TIME in 1925, I've been a devotee. Since the Depression, my reading has been intermittent but still avid...
...hundred water closets having been installed and tested under the ancient eye of the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April 26), these last weeks were carefully subdivided into groups: PEERS, GENTLEMEN and MEN; PEERESSES, LADIES and WOMEN. The Duke of Norfolk's office issued precise directions for their use: every two hours, Gentlemen Ushers of the Gold Rod would pass watchfully up & down the stands. Peers, gentlemen and men should attract the ushers' attention by raising the hands (but not snapping the fingers) and would be escorted to their respective stations...
...marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife or her agent a get (writ of divorcement) before a rabbi. But many another Jew gets a civil divorce or deserts his wife, without bothering to give her the get which, religiously at least, sets...
...asking Harvard to take Moscow gold and then its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances. But the University is being asked to face publicly the full implications of these dismissals and to day whether it is any longer interested in retaining its ancient distinction as a liberal institution...