Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Operating as private membership associations, exchanges have always administered their affairs in much the same manner as private clubs. For a business so vested with public interest, this traditional method has become archaic...
...many of the most important atoms handled by physicists are considerably smaller. An ancient Greek, Democritus, coined the word "atom" which means indivisible. For thousands of years this was a perfectly good name but for the past two decades, since the first atoms were sundered, it has been archaic...
...last week an archaic Union regulation, that no oranges or apples can be given out uncut, has been enforced for the first time this year, to the detriment of the Yardlings' midnight snacks and orange fights. Sharp contrast to this is seen in the House dining halls, where oranges, apples, bananas, and even grapefruit are doled out gratis and uncut...
...Hall is invariably packed to the doors. Students, critics, laymen and churchmen well know that no other organization in the U. S. can sing plain song so perfectly as the Pius X School Choir. Last week Manhattanites were marveling again that any choir could get such feeling out of archaic melodies and Latin texts...
Yellowstone Moran grew a magnificent beard and lived to be 89, dying in 1926 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He continued to paint until the day of his death, never changing his archaic, meticulous style, never losing his interest in the Far West and the National Park movement...