Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through in terms of a world whose morals and religion will have to reflect the transformations in its economic and political life. They are interested, many of them passionately, in finding or constructing some picture of the good life and the great society. What they are rebelling against is archaic mumbo jumbo, moral emptiness and the theological echoes of once living faiths. They wish to make a faith of their own. And in it the elements of cooperativeness rather than acquisitiveness, science rather than mythology, realism rather than ritualism, will, I suspect, have a large part. They wish to start...
...nurse's white cap and the child's yellow hair looked like halos (see cut). Deliberately archaic, the little panel reminded Detroiters of medieval church paintings. Detroit's art fight started when some clergymen called the vaccination panel a sacrilegious parody. The Institute's secretary blasted back that anyone who saw the Holy Family in that picture "can see spooks in the dark!" One clergyman found a further slur on Christianity in the Gothic decorations of a commercial radio topped by an adding machine in the Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum...
...Shorter Oxford Dictionary. In two fat volumes, together weighing 14½ lb., it lists some 250,000 words, "covers not only the history of the general English vocabulary from the days of King Alfred down to the present time, but includes also a large number of obsolete, archaic, provincial, and foreign words and phrases, and a multitude of terms of art and science." Begun in 1902, it is more up-to-date than its parent, less unwieldy, and has all the parental authority behind...
...offer rich clients the most extraordinary treasures, objects that had evaded the researches of biographers and art students for centuries. With great clamor the Boston Museum paid $100,000 for a Renaissance tomb identified by Italian experts as the work of Mino da Fiesole. The Metropolitan Museum bought an archaic Greek statue. Miss Helen Frick got an angel by "Simone Martini"-the list is endless...
...criticism he expects will parallel the criticism he aroused when he reported finding germs in archaic sedimentary rocks, ancient coal, deepwell petroleum: that bugs got into his specimens despite all his germicidal precautions...