Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on the first level of objection, there is the question of which would you rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with...
...Fairservis guesses roughly that the city, unlisted on maps or by historians, so far as he knows, died "about the time of the Crusades" (11th to 13th Centuries A.D.). Next summer he intends to go back with a staff of archeologists, to give the city its correct ancient name and its place in the stream of history...
...this round-the-world ocean, Urey thinks, life evolved a billion and a half years ago. There is no record of these ancient creatures because they were all "pelagic," living at or near the surface of the water. They did not develop heavy, easily preserved shells or skeletons because there was no land or shallow bottom for non-floating forms to live...
...never rains but it Powers," opined the ancient oriental, "I'm not trying to Sella bill of goods," salaamed the apprentice oracle, "I met a Rizzi Buxton babe with Zawadsky dough, and if you can Reed between the lines, you'll know that we're expecting a little Bunnell of joy just in time for Emery Christmas. Harkins-folk are Palln-g at the prospect...
...commentary on the Book of Habbakuk, and a manual of discipline for a minor Jewish sect. Scholars predict that complete analysis and translation of the scrolls will take many years. In order that experts all over the world may take part in this interpretive work, detailed photographs of the ancient scrolls so far unrolled have been made available by the American School of Oriental Studies...