Word: archaicism
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Other fine objects from the same 1931 expedition were "found" in the same glass case: a bronze sun-disk, a bronze bell shaped like a football, and a collection of archaic seals and beads...
...deliver them still hot at an Indiana rolling mill, but mix-ups and wrongly thrown switches sometimes cause freight cars to get lost for as much as seven weeks. High-speed, $15 million ocean ships lie idle for days in port while they are loaded by means of archaic slings. No less an authority than Najeeb Halaby, former head of the Federal Aviation Agency, insists that the U.S. really has no system of transportation at all, only a mishmash of "some of the best components anywhere...
...training of priests must be brought more into line with modern pedagogy-and the appointment of such men as Archbishop Garrone and Father Carrier is a step in that direction. The changes will come none too soon for the seminarians, who have lately displayed signs of restlessness at the archaic rules that still determine their training. Last year one group of students at the Greg circulated a petition demanding an updating of the curriculum, began to boycott classes when the administration gave a temporizing response. As it happens, Father Carrier is much in sympathy. One of his first acts...
...made for the law but the law for the Jew." Israel's Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Silberg believes that the time has come for a new Halakah code that would be "a secular legal creation based on principles of Jewish law with a clear dissociation from all the archaic layers that were heaped on Jewish law. The task will be to select the wheat from the chaff, to cut away the dried branches from the tree, which is still full of life...
...With two-thirds of the year gone, Viet Nam's four regions have committed less than half of their 1966 development budgets; in northern provinces, racked by anti-government ferment last summer, as little as 13% of these projects has been completed. Reform of Viet Nam's archaic land tenure, the key to a land-hungry peasant's loyalty, is also dragging. Though Komer claims that the Ky regime "is proceeding with distribution of 1,200,000 acres of expropriated and government-owned land," in fact it has only managed so far to hand out title deeds...