Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That single archaic skull and the commingled bones of the ten bodies and their limbs, all fossilized, scientific diggers recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...
...like those of Laureate Bridges, however, permit a treatment of English as Virgil treated Latin, with heed to both "long" and "short" syllables. When he speaks of "loose alexandrines" he is cracking a scholarly joke, for his careful quantitative measurement makes every line scan perfectly. The spelling, sometimes apparently archaic, sometimes apparently futuristic, is a guide...
...consternation of the bird-lovers and the embarrassment of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who unveiled the statue (TIME, June 1, 1925), Epstein's Rima was not the melodious and polychromatic creature of Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic countenance roused a deafening discussion. She was called grotesque, horrible. The protests culminated in a student uprising in which the bird-girl was painted green. Londoners today point out with chagrin her quiet nook, declare she "scares the birds away...
...High Priest with his assistants. The High Priest read an address to the spirit of Amaterasu O-Mikami, informing her that her new home was ready. Then the procession formed to march the 350 yards from the old temple to the new. First came more torch bearers in archaic costumes, then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then came the Sacred Mirror herself, her tabernacle close curtained, borne on the shoulders of white-robed priests. Humbly at the tail of the procession, blinking in the acrid smoke of the pine...
Repugnant -unfair -rotten -archaic-unjust -unacceptable- deplorable...