Word: archaice
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Lowdermilk's was a wonderfully archaic place redolent of the 19th century, with its air of oddity and discovery. Ralph Newman, owner of Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, observed: "It was like going to your favorite tavern-you could always find things there, like a first printing of the Gettysburg Address." Newman will keep his own store open as long as he can. "We're one of the few bookstores left where you can get a drink in the back," Newman smiled. "Try that on the Book-of-the-Month Club...
Almost everyone agrees that men must be added to the archaic administrative structure of the President's office-the question is how that is to be done. The stage is set for a gigantic and important guessing-game in University politics...
...cannot blame B.A.S.F. for this entirely. They have the blessings of our state's leaders, and the pollution they create will be within the limits permissible under our archaic and inadequate laws dealing with the subject. No, the onus belongs chiefly to the local politicians-in this case, Democrats all-who are so anxious to jump in bed with the Germans...
...came to call the great man hunt. Firm offers went to several men whose polite replies, when translated, amounted to "Hell, no, I won't go." The Selective Service System, after all, is vilified by many youngsters, attacked and second-guessed on Capitol Hill, and burdened with an archaic network of local boards that constitute an administrative nightmare...
...would those few archaic fans who now receive a special charge from going to the stadium to see programs be left in the wilderness. They could go to special theatres, similar to the ones where championship boxing matches are now sometimes televised...