Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish Honduras. Dr. Thomas W. F. Gann of the British Museum investigated engraved Mayan monoliths that furnished an accurate check on the calendar archaeologists have worked out for Mayan history. In Guatemala, Dr. Manuel Gamio of Mexico dug into highland strata, discovered archaic pottery and sculptures clearly pre-Mayan to support the theory that the Mayas' ancestors lived in the hills, whence earthquakes drove them to lower levels and firmer architecture...
...CANCER CAN BE CURED The Dread Disease Yields to Dietary Methods are Treatment, and Triumphant - Less Non-Surgical Than Forty Per Cent Deaths as Compared with Ninety Per Cent in Operative Methods - Sufferers at Last May Escape the Gory Knives of the Obstinate, Archaic Blood-Letters...
...interests of "lost heirs" who may be starving at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 2) The virtual abolition of the law of primogeniture, as part of a general equalization of the rights of younger sons and females on a par with eldest sons. 3) The abrogation of such quaint but archaic legal curiosities as "gavelkind," "Borough English" and "copyhold." "Grand and petty sergeantry," however, has not been tampered with. In consequence, the Dukes of Wellington will continue to hold the estate of Strathfieldsaye from the King in consideration of the presentation to him of a British flag, annually, on the anniversary...
...poet that ever lived delighted in amassing such curious, half-forgotten sounds; not even Francis Thompson had so great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...
...present it is not properly applied. On the one hand there is a system emphasizing a calm, dignified tour of the realms of gold, steady but unhurried, reaching its culmination in the General examinations. On the other hand is the archaic examination system reducing travelling to a series of periodic packings and last minute spurts. The two structures are mutually repellent, the future suffers for the sake of the immediate, tutorial work becomes a prey to the "throw a few facts in your suitcase" method, and college becomes analagous to the business cycle, a period of rapid expansion succeeded...