Word: archaicism
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...steelworkers. The Washington News commented: "Both sides ... are to blame, the union chiefly for its violent tactics. But this is a defense strike in which we feel that a major portion of the blame rests on the company. Labor policies of the Bethlehem Company have been notoriously archaic and often brutal...
...tremendous volume of them, some forty odd, of which two are to be played tonight. Three of Mozart's one-movement sonatas for the same combination of instruments will also be played, and they probably represent a revived interest on Mozart's part in the by then slightly archaic chamber form...
...best-seller needs: an alliterative title, a fat part for Tyrone Power when it reaches the films, and the ingredients of what critics like to call a rattling good yarn. It is set in the 18th Century, sauced with its political restiveness, and skillfully served up in a fake-archaic, first-person prose that has fibre enough to support a novel twice as serious...
...Leger). As a woman Elizabeth Madox Roberts has her principal strength, her ultimate weakness. Her strength is an exquisite sensitiveness to the subtlest personal emotions, and to the quieter values of a well-executed prose. Her weakness is a sort of thin though sentient primness; a love of the archaic for its own sake...
...needless fears. In religion, at least, only a study of its history can give us the long range view of spiritual and moral processes, which are our best safeguard against disillusionment and despair. We venture to think that, in spite of many valid criticisms of our curriculum, for its archaic and non-contemporary quality our alumni are probably more likely to weather the next few years, and to weather the next few years, and be of greater service to the permanent religious cause, than are those whose professional preparation for the ministry has failed to develop historical-mindedness...