Word: archaicism
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...Enemy of the Stars," now issued for the first time in book form, is perhaps now interesting because of the great effect it has had and because it represents a somewhat archaic example of an art form now more fully developed. Its influence has for the most part been indirect since it effected the form of the play in the middle of "Ulysses", and that book in turn has had almost more influence than any other single volume of prose on contemporary literature...
Necessarily the flight was made in a closed Imperial Airways liner of largest type. From London it whisked Lord Mayor Sir Maurice Jenks 200 miles north to Morecambe, Lancashire. Out climbed the Sword Bearer, the Mace Bearer, the City Marshal, the Common Cryer and a whole archaic retinue, so that Sir Maurice Jenks could inaugurate with proper pomp Morecambe's new Town Hall...
...those who saw the work of other candidates from other schools there could be no suggestion that the jury (Artists Barry Faulkner, Allyn Cox, Ezra Winter, James Monroe Hewlett, Abram Poole, Gari Melchers) was biased in its decision. The Yale School of Fine Arts may be imitative, slightly archaic, but it does give its pupils a knowledge of drawing and the use of paint apparently unequalled in other college art schools...
...Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the Erse; their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from the mainland one day, and settled down among...
...influenza epidemic of 1918 when it became standard British hospital diet. Bovril profits - some $1,500,000 a year -have been built in part upon the assurance, heartily shared by its noble directors, that the sense of fun never sets on the British Empire. Too conservative to desert the archaic method of advertising by quips and slogans, Bovril cajolements for the past 25 years have been almost an almanac of British humor, a glossary to theatrical and taproom slang. Bovril's august board has catered not only to the British appetite for beef, but also to the British appetite...