Word: archaicism
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...Scan" suggested last October that the whole campus needs a going over. Noting that the Smith student had to bend to a bevy of rules that were non-existant on other campuses, the paper said editorially, "But a close breakdown reveals that it is our campus which is archaic, not the rules which are simply an adjustment to this condition. For instance smoking rules (Smith girls cannot smoke in their rooms), the paper said, exists because the dormitories aren't fireproof. Dormitory rules on returning are so rigid, it explained, because the campus is to discuss...
...used. Later, Thorndike's students counted the meanings of each word, alone or in simple combinations (e.g., set has 544), and ranked those according to frequency. Despite all the counting, standard dictionary-makers kept right on printing the oldest definition of any word first, whether it is archaic...
...Democrats on Capitol Hill to come to the aid of the party. They had sat back in conspicuous silence during the months of Republican assaults on Dean Acheson. Up rose a man least likely to be accused of sympathy for the Secretary of State or his views-archaic (81), rheumy-eyed Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee. "[I] . . . urge each and every one of my colleagues and every American citizen to stay together in this time of trouble," said he. Old Kenneth McKellar could not bring himself to defend Dean Acheson by name, but he reminded the Senate that the President...
Centuries of British mining have exhausted promising seams, extended tortuous runways miles underground, forced workers away from the dull, dangerous pits to other work. So archaic and complicated is the system that only 25% of Britain's mine workers directly dig coal, against 70% in the U.S. In the time it takes one British miner to haul five tons of coal to the surface, one Hollander hauls 20 to 25 tons, one American 50 tons...
Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when her witch aunt and her warlock brother arrive to tangle things up. A pathetic little author of witchcraft books is drawn to the apartment and his descriptions of "them" afford some enjoyable snickers...