Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert van Gulik, 57, who is the Netherlands' Ambassador to Japan and an Oriental scholar. His writing lacks somewhat in professional sheen, but Scholar Gulik more than compensates with rich and accurate historical detail of the Tang dynasty. The manners and mores, the factionalism and regionalism of that ancient era suggest that modern China is not, after all, much more adept at maintaining the writ of Peking over the vast, disparate reaches and peoples of the Asian Goliath...
What is most startling about the drawings is that they were the work of an eager young man in his twenties and not a mature artist surfeited with life and pleasure. But perhaps Beardsley was born ancient; one friend recalled that, even as a child, Beardsley had "the oldest eyes I have ever seen...
...move by Eshkol's government towards an acceptance of a U.N. resolution which would take the Israelis back to their status ante bellum would be greeted with a great deal of unpopularity -- something the ancient regime can ill afford at this point...
When was the earth formed? What are the ancient milestones in man's development? In recent years, scientists have tackled such mysteries by means of radioactive dating. By comparing the amount of radioactive carbon 14 in a fossil with the amount contained in a living counterpart, for example, paleontologists determine when the fossil was part of a functioning organism. Using similar methods, scientists date meaningful objects as old as 3.5 billion years...
Until five years ago, Denver-based Frontier Airlines chugged along as a small feeder line, earning minuscule profits and quite a bit of ill will with an ancient DC-3 fleet that was forever running late. Since then, Frontier has picked up speed enough to become a leader among the nation's 13 local service carriers. In 1966, it not only earned the largest profit ($1,790,000) among the regionals but also showed the greatest increase (58%) among all U.S. scheduled airlines in revenue passenger miles-the number of paying customers multiplied by distance flown...