Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing with a beebe gun of ancient vintage and formidable appearance, Frederick C. Minkler '39 sent a dozen waitresses scurrying for shelter in the Lowell House dining room last night...
...glassy Bayou Barataria last week, 70 of these homemade vessels lined up for the third annual four-mile race to determine the No. 1 piroguer of the U. S. Favorite with the 5,000 spectators who gathered under the ancient, moss draped oaks was 19-year-old Adam Billiot, winner...
...University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru. San Marcos was established in 1551. Today, housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most of the Peruvian Indians. Although it has no literature, it is written down...
King Sisowath Monivong, 59-year-old ruler of the ancient protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China, dismissed approximately 100 of his 200 wives. Reason: economy. The dismissed ladies will keep themselves occupied with classical dancing, for which they are famed...
...Classics, suffering from a decline in the number who are fortunate enough to know the ancient languages, would receive no harm if a course were given with reading in English translation, although this certainly would be a blow to the dignity of moribund classicism. Yet this might in the end be beneficial. It would make the present low state of the classics plain even to those who occupy commanding positions in its Ivory Tower, and by dispelling false pride based on illusions of grandeur, stimulate them to new thought on how best to use the unquestionable values that are still...