Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backbone of the two-year program is the thesis requirement. Each student works on this individual research, and the best are printed in a mimeographed "Papers on China." The topics range from ancient times to the present Chinese Communist Party. The accent, however, is on the modern, not because the school pushes it, but because it seems to appeal to more students...
...issue was the loss by Chicago's ancient Parmelee Transportation Co. of its 102-year-old franchise to haul passengers and baggage between the city's eight painfully scattered railroad stations. Last spring the railroads, considering Parmelee inefficient and overpriced, threw open bidding on a new five-year contract. Successful low bidder was Railroad Transfer Service, Inc., headed by tempestuous John Keeshin, trucking magnate and longtime, if unlikely, friend of quiet Hugh Cross...
...would say to these people that we are quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms and crowd-crammed streets, with merry quips, tough speeches and promises tossed out like rose petals, they wooed the great uncommitted mass (1,140,000 sq. mi.) and minds (356,891,-624 people) of the world's second most populous...
...tail the dugong displays when diving-led Greek and Arab seamen to bring back tales of mermaids. The dugong also emits a low-pitched whistling sound as the air rushes in through its nostrils. This may account for Homer's persistent legend of sweet-voiced sirens who lured ancient Greek mariners to their deaths on rocky Scylla...
Vermouth is a tawny mixture of herbs and fermented grape juice whose origins are as murky as Louisiana Snake Oil.* Ancient Romans gulped vermouth as a surefire aphrodisiac, while as late as 1720, Frenchmen celebrated it as a preventive against plague. Last week, John L. Tribuno, head of Vermouth Industries of America, biggest domestic producer, announced that the ancient elixir was breaking all records in the U.S., but for a 20th century reason: the rise of the dry martini as the great U.S. national cocktail...