Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert B. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum today announced that the gift of a valuable collection of ancient pottery and glassware has been received from the estate of the late Reverend Mr. George S. Fiske '91 of Boston. The collection has been placed on public display at the museum...
...ancient as St. Paul's (first held in 1886) is the winter carnival of the Dartmouth Outing Club scheduled this week-end at Hanover, N. H. for the syth year, but Dartmouth's party is the foremost U. S. wintersports meeting. Last week Dartmouth was worried, for still holding was the balmy weather which had ruined half the winter for more than 70,000 ski addicts on the Eastern seaboard, forced cancellation of snow trains, hit the purses of hundreds of winter inn-owners throughout the White, Green, and Adirondack Mountains. Even the world snowshoe championships at Ottawa...
...Darnell explained a bill of his which the Arkansas House of Representatives had just passed. "Everyone looks at a mule's teeth to determine his age," said Author Darnell. "Under my bill, mule swappers can't file a mule's teeth [sharp] and sell you an ancient animal on the claim that he's a youngster...
...Union in the most notable of the resolutions it passed last week voiced its faith in Jewishness. In an unmistakable trend back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish music only, and resume use of the ancient Kiddush, a blessing before the evening meal to proclaim the holiness of the Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith in the Jewish homeland, praising the Jewish Agency-to which Zionists and non-Zionists subscribe-for its activities: "We see the hand of Providence in the opening of the gates of Palestine...
...Reflecting company estimates of a potential reserve of at least 100,000,-ooo bbl. in its new field, Barnsdall stock in six weeks was moved up from $20 to $34 per share. C In ancient Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia), word leaked out that Seaboard Oil Co. had acquired exploration and exploitation rights to 180,000 sq. mi. of Iranian territory...