Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...
...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...quarters have yet been provided for the guardedly anonymous editorial staff, who are still confined in file-cramped cubicles on three floors of the old Times building. Those ancient floors are joined at each end by a winding staircase and the Times's famed lift-"Full load, 3 persons"-in which, legend has it, the great Editor Dawson was once marooned between floors for an hour, copy for an important "leader" article quivering in his hand...
Other items featured in the exhibit are a copy of "Mont Blanc in the Vale of Chamouny" in the poets own handwriting, and Coleridge's own copy of the "Ancient Mariner," with marginal notes written...
...Massachusetts Historical Society, The American Academy of Arts, and The American Historical and Sciences Society include him as a member. Among his writings of the ancient world are "A History of the Ancient World," "The Roman Empire," and "Mystic Italy...