Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressed, would agree that the world has changed over the past ages, and that it is still changing. Many would confess a belief that it changes for the better. But breathes there the man who has not, at some time or other, wished for a return of the ancient and honorable custom of vigorously expressing distaste at the fare offered audiences by some of our present-day stage entertainers...
Bitterly resenting the fact that the defense was not given a hearing before the charges were broadcast to the Press, James M. Hutton Sr., head of the 50-year-old Cincinnati firm, cracked back in a flat denial: "It [the stock] went up purely because of the ancient law of supply and demand that has been in effect much longer than the law under which the Securities Commission operates...
...sort, the student is left entirely to the whim of the instructor as to whether he sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate has too often been forced to look on examinations as ancient history as soon as the proctor collects them. For the University to treat in so haphazard a fashion work that counts more heavily than any single factor in a college career is clearly a breach of trust, and a uniform system should be devised by which all who desire...
...This is an instance," said the scientist, "of the Oriental origin of certain motives which the Greeks borrowed from the East. It reminds us . . . the Greeks were late arrivals in an ancient and highly developed civilized world...
...France no sparkling wine can legally be called "champagne" unless produced in the ancient district of that name around Rheims. U. S. winemakers have been permitted to use the name since Repeal...