Word: archaicism
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Spoor & Spurn. What is most striking about Buchan's heroes, for modern readers at least, is their now archaic innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean...
...Hassel's unusual first names are of archaic Frisian origin and often encountered in North Germany. Uwe (pronounced oo-vuh) is similar to Oswald, while Kai (rhymes with sky) is a near-perfect name for a German politician. It means: "One who is dangerous to his enemy...
Joxe, who negotiated the Algerian peace, was given the task of overhauling the vast, archaic administrative system, whose authority in France's 90 provincial departments has been steadily eroded by the centralization of government. Former Information Minister Fouchet, was assigned the even more arduous job of modernizing the nation's educational system, which is woefully short of classrooms, teachers and facilities for technical education (only 3% of all French students go on to a university...
After six years of fighting a hostile Democratic machine, Endicott Peabody has won a high elective office in the Commonwealth. He brings to the Governorship ambitious plans for reforming many of the archaic, corrupt practices of Massachusetts government. Peabody has proposed constitutional reforms which would strengthen the authority of a woefully impotent executive, reduce the workload of an overburdened legislature, and strike at corruption in Massachusetts by ending the confusion which surrounds much activity on Beacon Hill...
...hard-hit unemployment areas, such as northeast England and Scotland. New roads, factories and towns will be built to prepare for "the next wave of industrial expansion." Building, one of Britain's most inefficient industries, will be overhauled by coordinating government construction, streamlining techniques and archaic codes. Public building, which accounts for nearly half of Britain's national investment program, will be accelerated, while lagging slum clearance and new housing construction will be speeded...