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Word: ancient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berrien County, Ga.. a moonshiners' ancient auto, capable of making a 147-m.p.h. getaway with a load of 200 gallons of corn liquor, was bought at auction by County Sheriff Walter Gaskins, who will use it to chase moonshiners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...noted that during the two greatest periods of creativity, ancient Greece from the sixth to the fourth century B.C. and the Renaissance from 1500 to the present, great scientific discoveries and important works of art have been produced simultaneously. This seems to indicate that once a creative spirit seizes a society, it is one spirit manifested in numerous ways...

Author: By Elizabeth LEE Hirsch, | Title: Bronowski Links Creativity And Change, in Conference Address | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...chief campus concern was: how many goldfish can a college student swallow at one sitting? Today, the great question seems to be this: how many students can inhabit a telephone booth at once? (A connection between the booth and the fish also arises from the fact that buthia is ancient Greek for "water animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many in a Phone Booth? | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...Summer School office has also disclosed which courses are most popular this year. The following courses have enrollments of over 100: Fine Arts S-19e, Five Epochs of Art History: Selected Works of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern Art; History S-134b, Intellectual History of Europe Since 1815; English S-164, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel; Government S-185, The United States in World Politics; Chem S-20, Organic Chemistry; History S-155c, Russian Thought from Ivan the Terrible to Pasternak; Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Rolls Show Gain of 165 Over Last Year | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

...ancient King Indradyumna, it is said, sought to find the Lord of the Universe-Jagannath, one of the names of Vishnu, the Preserver. After many hardships, it was miraculously revealed to him that Jagannath would come to him as a log of wood, and soon thereafter a huge log with strange markings appeared, floating in the Bay of Bengal near the city of Puri. The king ordered his carpenters to carve an image from it, but their chisels broke. At last the Lord Vishnu himself appeared, disguised as an old carpenter, and the king agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Juggernaut | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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