Word: antedeluvian
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...MOST antedeluvian of Radcliffe departments are the kitchens. The large staffs are costly and inefficient. In the South House kitchen several days ago, seven cooks seemed to have very little elbow room. And the waitresses have to waste time loading, unloading, pushing and doling out the carts of food...
From eras antedeluvian Harvard's Administration had opposed the building of a theatre in Harvard Square as a menace to the moral welfare of undergraduates. Around the turn of the century the Administration was joined by another forward-looking, progressive institution, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association. Together, side by side, they waged war on the machine age. But finally, in 1926, they were forced into an admission that men could fly, buggies could run without horses, and a motion picture theatre could be built in Harvard Square...
...University theatre. That is, unless you'd like to watch three stellar comedians in action. Two of them are Laurel and Hardy in a two-reeler. Under the best direction issuing these days from Hollywood and certainly the most intelligent sound synchronization, these two work with pitiful dialogue, antedeluvian gags and no plot...
...points in the general make-up and methods of play of her team. While the Tiger offence with J.S. Baker as a clear-headed quarterback and accurate forward passer and three clever backs in Baker, Streit, and Trenkman is well balanced and aggressive, the defence has been characterized as antedeluvian. This applies principally to the ends who are coached to play a "waiting game," that is to break up the attack by waiting for the play to come to them instead of going in to get it. Captain Baker will be seriously handicapped in his punting if there...
...latest issue of the Monthly is eminently readable. There is much in it of interest, value and entertainment. Above all there seems to be an absence of the apparently overpowering critical instinct which so pervades most numbers--little recourse, in fact, to antedeluvian poets or appreciations of literature which but for the efforts of the writer, would probably never, be unearthed. The first article particularly the "Ph.D. Octopus," by William James, strikes one as being vital and altogether human. The statement that only a man of evident native power is now allowed to receive the degree, and that...
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