Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that...
...diplomacy, blinking before a Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa...
...important testimony in a divorce case. Court Interpreter Vincent D'Agrossa volunteered to explain. This case involved an Italian couple, and to Italians the bit of old-world folklore had plenty of meaning. The gesture, said Interpreter D'Agrossa, was "what we call cornuto." It was an ancient custom to cut the spurs off castrated cocks and graft them to the birds' heads, where they grew as horns. Since the horned capon was a strutting definition of sexual inadequacy, its horns became a symbol of cuckoldry. The sign of the horns, he said, should not be confused...
...dead of night at Tokyo last week, highest army, navy and Cabinet bigwigs met and went secretly to see Emperor Hirohito in his moat-encircled castle. They clattered over the ancient drawbridge at 1:30 a. m., bound for the sixth Imperial Conference since the founding of the present Japanese Constitutional Empire. About noon the statesmen dispersed but not until late afternoon was the Japanese public permitted to know what had taken place...
Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History found a sauropod trail near Glen Rose, Texas. Taking twelve feet at a stride, the creature had ambled down to the edge of an ancient river, crossed it, walked out on the other side. Thus it was clear that the sauropods could travel overland, for short distances at least. But the feet of Dr. Bird's great sauropod sank into the soggy ground two feet at every step...