Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest that in future you use single, double, triple and so on dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient & Honorable Order of Occasional Swearers could figure it out and rest assured that the writer is a brother and not some rank outsider in Russian, Chinese or Sanskrit...
...Ancient Birds", Professor Raymond, Geology Museum...
...begun; 2) Rebuild Nanking as a "modern capital," with a "White Hall" for the President of China and "Six Civic Quarters"− governmental, educational, commercial, industrial, residential and celestial−the latter to be the "Purple Hills Quarter" containing the tomb of Saint Sun; 3) Level the walls of Ancient Nanking as the walls of Paris were leveled in the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715) and lay out on their foundations a "Parisian" circle of boulevards 150 feet wide; 4) Construct throughout China 20,000 miles of railway, 10,000 miles of motor highways, and literally innumerable flood control...
Died. George Washington Lewis, of Cambridge, Mass., for over 45 years the esteemed Negro steward of the Porcellian Club at Harvard College; in Cambridge, Mass. Ancient and most esoteric of Harvard clubs is Porcellian, founded in 1791.* An oil portrait of Steward Lewis hangs in the clubhouse. Steward Lewis had ten Porcellian pallbearers...
...conflict between the ancient tribal religion and the modern manners being adopted is often ludicrous. The African negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from...