Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the committee is composed of E. Merrick Dodd Jr. '10, professor of Law; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; Harlow Shapely, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Kenneth Murdock, professor of English; Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law; and William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
...third is the Social and Intellectual Backgrounds of Expression, in which two courses are required. The courses include ancient culture subjects along with Comparative Literature, History, Government theory, and cultural backgrounds in various countries and civilizations...
...fourth is the History of European Literatures and Study of the Principal European Authors, requiring two courses in certain ancient or modern languages, or in the works of certain major writers...
...dusk his car climbed the hill to ancient Hradschin Castle. Slowly he ascended its stairs to his suite, rooms used by Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, founders of the republic. Adolf Hitler's personal gold-bordered swastika was unfurled overhead, he stepped to a window and looked down on the twinkling lights of another subject city...
What that declaration was he would not say just then. But significant was a German Foreign Office statement, issued but immediately withdrawn pending further developments: "The return of Czecho-Slovakia to the German Reich would signify the restoration of ancient historical conditions. . . . An unambiguous situation in Czecho-Slovakia is indispensable to the security of Germany. . . ." Significant, too, were the remarks of a British Government "spokesman" who observed that while the four Munich powers had agreed to guarantee mutilated CzechoSlovakia's external borders, her internal divisions were no concern of Britain's. That did about all that was needed...