Word: ancient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During President Eisenhower's 26 months in office, more than 25 visiting foreign rulers and heads of state have come to seek aid and accords, to form friendly relations and common policies. This week to Washington, which is to the West what Rome was to the ancient world, journeyed a visitor from Rome: Italy's Premier Mario Scelba (see box), who came with many purposes in mind but not with hat in outstretched hand. Said Scelba: He did not intend "to ask the American taxpayer to make any further sacrifice...
...from certain cursive characters that the Egyptians had evolved from their own hieroglyphs. Later, other scholars began to discover certain signs that predated hieroglyphs -a series of trademarks, potters' signs, pawnbrokers' labels, and masons' marks that may have spread from trader to trader all over the ancient world. These, they reasoned, may have provided the beginnings of the alphabet...
...prisoner relief in Siberia during World War I, pastor at Cornell University until 1942-Dr. Moran found time to dig deeper into the historical ABCs. eventually evolved a basic theory. The alphabet, says he* could have had its origin only in some great "organizing principle" common to the ancient world as 'far back as 1400 B.C. The only principle possible: religion...
...From an ancient Chinese astrological table and the P'u Pan. the necromancer's divining board. Moran did find what he believes to be the key. It was not from the signs of the solar zodiac that he got it; it was from the 28 signs of the Luna (i.e., moon) zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved...
Joining Cohen on the faculty committee for the department of History and Science will be: Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; Werner W. Jaeger, University. Professor; C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History; Frank M. Carpenter '26, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology; Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics; and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature...