Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the aisle dividing the men and women in the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove. L. I. marched satin-gowned Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks. They sat down on a plain wooden bench facing 200 guests. For several minutes there was no sound in the ancient frame building. At length, when the spirit moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate...
...display of her forces-of those who would form the backbone of her second-line defense. The event was the tenth Congress and athletic carnival of the Sokols, lasting a full month. Sokol Congresses, scheduled every six years, are much older than the modern Olympic Games and, like the ancient Olympics, their background is strongly national. The Czechoslovak Sokol, oldest national gymnastic organization in the world, was founded in 1862 by Philosopher Author Dr. Miroslav Tyrs and Dr. Jindrich Fügner. The name Sokol, meaning falcon, was adopted because it is the traditional name for Czech folk-song heroes...
...triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also, 700 wives, 300 concubines, and "a prolonged visit from the most famous house guest of ancient history, the luscious and magnificent Queen of Sheba...
Throughout the day historic rites will be observed, linking the University with its beginnings 300 years ago. These picturesque affairs will include the opening of the morning exericses by High Sheriff McElroy of Middlesex County; the seating of the president in an ancient Tudor chair, and many others...
...weeks sporting England has been worried over the drought that frizzled the British Isles this spring. It threatened to spoil the ancient St. Andrews golf course for Britain's No. 1 international sporting event of the year (see below). More distressing, it threatened to parch the turf at ancient Epsom Downs for the nation's No. 1 fiesta, the Derby. With loving care the grass of the irregular horseshoe course was watered every day for ten dry weeks. Then, on the eve of the race, a torrent fell...