Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays host to foreign notables, receives ambassadors, launches ships, opens hospitals, unveils war monuments, throws parties for poor children, meddles not at all in politics. He gets $47,700 salary a year, an equal amount for expenses, has the Elysée Palace as a Paris home and the ancient royal château of Rambouillet for his summer residence. French wits call him the "prisoner of Marianne." The last job an ambitious, up-&-coming French politician wants is the presidency...
Arthur S. Pease '02, professor of Latin and Chairman of the Division of Ancient Languages, objected chiefly to the idea of initial three-year appointments for instructors, in response to questions...
...really shouldn't like Harvard a great deal, since I went to Oxford for a year and our ancient rival, Cambridge, gave a degree to John Harvard," declared Raymond Massey, star of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," after a recent matinee performance of the New York...
Last week Bostonians trooped to the Fine Arts Museum to see the Institute's most independent, smartest exhibition so far: "Sources of Modern Painting." Hung side by side were selected modern paintings from Manet to Dali and the i) older European pictures, 2) primitive pictures, 3) ancient pictures, 4) Japanese prints or 5) photographs with which they were definitely linked in style. No mere repetition of the now familiar facts and Grade A names, the show included such juxtapositions as an early Gauguin and a Kate
Example: there was a time, in the his tory of mathematics, when certain kinds of irrational and imaginary numbers were not "respectable." The ancient Greeks were shocked and embarrassed by such a number as the square root of two. Now these numbers are indispensable tools of science - just as political tenets which are not "respectable" today may be accepted as a matter of course tomorrow...