Word: archaical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamental reason for such a thing as the Emmett Till episode ... rests upon the archaic ideology of the southern people as a majority. I interpret ideology here in the Webster sense as the "aggregate of ideas, beliefs, doctrines of a large group of persons". This ideology has lead the Southerners to spew forth such statements as the following: "If Roy and J. W. (referring to Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, the defendants in the Till case) are convicted of murder...where under the shining sun is the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Or more...
Indispensable to the dispenser, be he doctor or druggist, is the dispensatory. The archaic name is appropriate: last week appeared the 25th edition in 122 years of The Dispensatory of the United States of America (Lippincott; $25), a strapping oldster...
Elder, calling the former policy of the GSAS "completely archaic," said that most students only need loans for short-term purposes, since a large scholarship program in general covers such basic expenses as tuition. "Although I don't expect a raid on the bank, lower interest rates should certainly make loans more bearable," he said...
Having won the battle to make Lamont more available, Crimeds voted that it should also be made more useful. "The University is well aware that the study of books is an archaic hangover of a bygone age," they noted...
...plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...