Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puppet to the thunder of an ancient god. For a while, they held the stage with nothing in the background, but over the years, Broderson's compositions have grown increasingly complex. They are the result of innumerable sketches, worked and reworked until the final structure, often an almost archaic architecture, is just right...
Ratification of the Constitution by the original states--of which Massachusetts was one--was obtained only after the citizens in each state received definite and positive assurances that this fundamental concept of government was recognized by the Constitution Is this principle of states' rights as archaic doctrine, as insisted by those who seek the concentration of power in Washington? I say to you that it is a living principle, as vital and essential today as it was in the foundation days of the Republic--the doctrine of free society and free men, as opposed to regimentation of thought and action...
...serve the nation better. The Navy's 53-campus "Holloway" volunteer plan, offering complete scholarships, produces a steady supply of bright young officers, but Air Force R.O.T.C. at 187 schools harvests only 4% of trainees as commissioned officers, and the Army's 247-campus program is notoriously archaic. Among college administrators, who consider it much too costly, compulsory R.O.T.C. is now so widely resented that last year alone a dozen campuses dropped...
Those words of Reader Michael McCracken [Jan. 11] about the "outdated and archaic beliefs and customs" of Christianity dare not go unchallenged...
...nationalized coal industry, Labor M.P. Alfred Robens, 52, hardly seemed a promising choice. A dedicated socialist and onetime Minister of Labor under Clement Attlee, Robens had had no experience at all in running a big business. And the task before him was staggering. Burdened with uneconomic mines and archaic mining methods, Britain's coal industry had piled up a deficit of $227 million since its nationalization...