Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway to mourn the death of one other than a U. S. President...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
Since 1906, to take The Evening World's starting point, the point score is even more Crimson than the list of victories. Harvard, that is to say, rolled up 183 points, Yale only 110. And two years Harvard administered such a drubbing to her ancient adversary as has rarely been recorded against a first-line team. The scores were 36-0 and 41-0. Since football has been football she has shown her superiority over Yale so markedly that only a few could fail to notice it. Yet these few, it would seem, include most of the sports writers...
...that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric stones, and particularly by the scientific study of the shooting stars that flash by the hundred every second into the earth's atmosphere...
This collection, which is beginning an American tour with the Harvard show, includes examples of lacquer work as done today by Japanese potters, and many pieces made in imitation of ancient methods of glazing. The Oriental work and the work of English weavers has been brought direct from Japan and England...