Word: antediluvianism
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...flew over New Guinea last September to win his latest decoration, Dick Sutherland had followed the diverse career that makes a good Chief of Staff. In World War I, as a captain, his company commands ranged from M.P.s to front-line infantry. He was an early student at the antediluvian tank school in England. In 1941, three years after he left Tientsin to join MacArthur in the Philippines, he learned to fly. From his Republican father, U.S. Senator (1917-23) Howard Sutherland of West Virginia, Dick Sutherland even acquired a smattering of politics. He redesigned the Army-Navy Country Club...
...Enemy is Stronger." It was bad from the very beginning. The men of Habe's regiment were soft after months of misdirected idleness. Their gas masks were inadequately sealed over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman...
Founded in 1830 to afford worthy reading for the "better homes," the Transcript for 109 years was controlled by the family of Henry Worthington Button. In its antediluvian quarters across from the Old South Meeting House, the editorial offices of the Transcript reminded visitors of the sedate reading rooms of the Athenaeum. Reporters, scrupulously chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman...
...Dimetrodon, Triceratops and the other monsters who roamed the earth when time was young give vent to their antediluvian feelings, if at all?" Roach was ready to shoot sequences in "1,000,000 B.C." showing a death fight between Tyrannosaurus and Dimetrodon. Only sound was lacking...
...this and much, much more. Infinite variations of the theme. The ebb and flow of one life during four hectic and fleeting years in the most stubborn, parsimonious, tyrannical, antediluvian, irritating, tractable, generous, democratic, progressive, lovable university in America. To those who will become only a name with numerals on a card index file and a musty bluebook--goodbye. Your worthwhile additions to college life, and there were some, will be remembered; the rest forgotten. You are not Harvard any more. But you are, always Harvard...