Word: archaicism
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...standard Protestant Japanese version of the Bible, like many in other languages, is so weighed down with archaic language that some sections make sense only to scholars. Last week a new translation of the New Testament went on sale, advertised to make the Bible understandable "in a train, bus or streetcar." The translator: the Rev. Tomio Muto, a Presbyterian minister and a former Tokyo judge, who was one of Tojo's leading propaganda writers during World...
...Archaic Procedure...
...VEEP. BOTH ARE UNDENIABLY UNQUALIFIED TO SUCCEED THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. IN THESE TIMES. IT IS CERTAINLY TIME TO CHANGE THIS ARCHAIC PROCEDURE FOR SELECTING AN EMERGENCY PRESIDENT. ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS...
These are the GOP solutions, then, bankrupt solutions, devoid of any long-range considerations, and devoted primarily to buttering up voters by away of their pocket books and their love for their children. Its philosophical basis is the archaic notion that the West can enforce its image of Asia by the sword, and a childish insistence on "getting it over with...
...gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...