Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest headstone marks Reed's grave, his feet lie toward the ancient Kremlin wall, and his head toward Red Square, therby paralleling Lenin's glass-covered body within the tomb...
According to a special bulletin received late last night, 20 students of Cambridge University, England, were apprehended by the police of that ancient town for the innocent amusement of shooting off firecrackers on Guy Fawkes' day, which is the counterpart of our Fourth of July celebration...
President Hutchins of the University of Chicago wants to revive the scholarship of ancient Rome and Athens. In the current "Harper's" he takes sharp issue with Mr. Conant, and offers as the ideal General Education the study of rhetoric, logic, mathematics and the classic books. The President is headed in the right direction, but he is on the wrong road...
Chosen for a storehouse was the basement of a fireproof building on the Oglethorpe campus, whose foundations rest on ancient bedrock which is not likely to be visited by earthquakes. This roomy crypt has already been rendered waterproof. In it Dr. Jacobs and the Scientific American, which has promised enthusiastic cooperation, proposed to place a phonograph or sound film record bearing a salutation from the President of the U. S. to the potentates of 8113; recordings of the voices of King Edward, Stalin. Mussolini, Hitler. Emperor Hirohito and President Lin Shen; encyclopedias and newspapers: stainless steel or Monel metal models...
This affliction of mankind runs back into the mists of antiquity. Some scholars believe that the ancient Jews knew about syphilis and that this disease and its peculiar transmission were referred to in the Second Commandment: For I the Lord Thy God ama jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. The Greeks, in a dim, foggy way, described ailments contracted by unclean intercourse. The Romans were among the first to develop a sense of shame in connection with venereal diseases and said as little about...