Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the pop eyes of ignorance most of the testers looked on the great pyx*-, an ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one for each month, revealed. In each compartment were labeled bags of coin, the heaviest freight which the old pyx had ever borne: 92,492 pieces of small change, samples of the 184,843,732 coins† minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver...
Tomorrow's lecture will be broadcast by Professor Weston from Emerson Hall, where he will be addressing students concentrating in ancient and modern languages. This is one of a series of lectures on the world's great authors which are being given for students in this field on Wednesday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock...
...ancient maxim, attributed to Accursius (1182-1260) and much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
...celebrating some ancient solar anniversary, the sun appeared to be setting off fireworks last week. Astronomer Lucien d'Azambuja of the Paris Observatory at Meudon peered at solar photographs made with his powerful spectrohelioscope, found flaring "prominences'" shooting out 90,000 to 180,000 miles from the surface. Astronomer d'Azambuja declared he had not observed such intense solar activity for 20 years...
This is indeed the art of a great age. Large in scale, sombre in color, powerful in restrained emotion, it fits the themes of ancient legend...