Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called him, was born on the Aegean Island of Samos in 1860-according to most accounts; some people declare that he was born earlier than that, but that he liked to chop a few years off his age. As an archeologist, he spent years digging amid Greece's ancient ruins, published such learned works as Hades in Antique Art and The Maidens of the Acropolis. In 1900 he turned from archeology to politics, fought the Turks' despotic rule of Samos...
...noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
...Beran walked past Tommy gun-toting plainclothesmen, passed through the gates of his magnificent baroque palace on Prague's Hradcany Square, and stepped into his black, eight-cylindered Tatra. While Communist police continued their four-day search of the archbishop's palace, he sped off to the ancient monastery of Strahov, where about 3,000 of the faithful awaited...
...underline the obvious fact that the standing of any university depends primarily on the quality of its teachers and of its students. I do not have to tell this group of holders of advanced degrees that a university is first and foremost a band of scholars,--members of that ancient and universal company to which the President of Harvard admits the recipients of the Doctor's degree on Commencement day. "To advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity" is the constant aim of the members of a university. In their efforts they must by definition be always concerned with difficult...
...hearing room of the Capitol, Tennessee's ancient and irascible Senator Kenneth McKellar faced ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist...