Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service in that post violate an ancient statute saying: "No . . . Secretary of the Treasury . . . shall directly or indirectly be concerned or interested in the business of trade or commerce or be owner in whole or in part of any sea vessel...
...Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago and Dr. George Aaron Barton, Semitist of the University of Pennsylvania, debated on which was the older civilization, Egyptian or Mesopotamian. Dr. Breasted said that the Egyptians' technical attainments in medicine, art, science, sculpture and social organization predicted a civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt until hundreds of years...
...modest, shy. His beliefs were unorthodox, his moral scruples of painful intensity. His ashes now rest in a magnificent tomb in the Chapel of the Intercession. On the surface carved in bas-relief by Lee Lawrie is his image lying in state like the images above the tombs of ancient Gothic kings. Believing that architects are born, not made, Architect Goodhue once said : "There are too many architects anyhow and the education of more should be discouraged...
...last month (TIME, April 1) sent to London. For well had Commissioners Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne and Herbert Bayard Swope performed their duties. True, Commissioner Chadbourne had been taken with a chill, and both Commissioners Chadbourne & Swope had excursioned to Paris, there to witness a contemporary demonstration of the ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had also won a complete, a memorable, a monumental victory. For last week Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s Managing Director, announced that his company's "British Only" stock issue...
...ancient, shady ancestry is the Devil. As Egypt's Serpent Apap, he crawled at dark by the Nile while flames shuddered in his thin trail. In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina." His was the god-defiance of Prometheus, the malice of Ahriman. Still as Siva he destroys...