Word: archaicism
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...efforts this year will be directed at the exploration of the archaic city of the Lydians of the time of Croesus, excavation of an early Christian residence that has yielded bronzes of considerable interest and of two Roman structures...
Borrowing Trouble. Much of Michigan's financial trouble did indeed lie far, far beyond Soapy Williams in the state's dusty, archaic constitutional tax structure. Michigan, the nation's twelfth wealthiest state in terms of per capita income, collects about $1 billion in state taxes. But five-sixths of the revenues from the 3% sales tax-biggest income source-must be turned back to city and town governments and school districts. All gasoline tax revenue must be spent on the highways. Result: the state must meet costs of state government, the state universities, the state police...
...addition to Griffin, three other visiting professors will teach history courses next year. Henry T. Wade-Gery, professor at Oxford University, will offer a Fall half-courses on the Greek renaissance and archaic Greece...
...most significant failure, however, is linguistic. He appears to be trying for a grander idiom than his customary one, and an occasional line reverberates with more than usual spaciousness. But many of the speeches are merely clumsy, as if the author was aiming for an archaic effect and did not know quite how to achieve...
Translating from the archaic, Master John M. Bullitt '43, describes the coat of arms as "red, with hollow diamonds joined together in rows of three, three, and one in gold...