Word: archaice
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...aura of the extraterrestrial Frank Merriwell has always clung to the nation's astronauts-an image of cool, technological grit. In an era of diminished heroes, they were paragons of what almost seemed an archaic ethic of know-how, daring and purity...
...they are to avoid more protectionist retaliation against their own goods abroad. But even an immediate removal of all formal barriers would not necessarily open Japan wide to U.S. marketing men. The most formidable of the obstacles cannot be lowered by diplomatic negotiation. It is Japan's archaic and labyrinthine distribution system...
...dialect with its own grammar and vocabulary. For three centuries, it has been the language of most American Negroes, but until recently, both its origins and its rules have remained a mystery. Scholars once thought that it was either an ignorant misuse of Standard English or a remnant of archaic British dialects learned by slaves from their Southern masters. Lately, however, a number of linguists have come to believe that the dialect originated with the slaves themselves...
Innocent here is a gentle, archaic term for a retarded child. Antoinette Guthrie, aged three, is the daughter of a beautiful English woman and a wealthy American. She is confided to the care of an aging friend in East Anglia while her parents travel on the Continent. World War II interrupts the tour, and the parents must return directly to America, leaving their daughter in England for the duration. After the war, the mother, who has become a New York society figure, returns to England to reclaim her child...
...gymnasium of the mind," for Einstein a demon "that holds its master in its own bonds, fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit." Said H.G. Wells: "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you want to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable. But teach him, inoculate him with chess. It annihilates...