Word: archaicism
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...legal monuments will survive the great Lord Chancellor: i) his masterly modernization of a great body of archaic statutes, enacted as the "Law of Property Act of 1922" ; 2) the Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...
...Director is Johann Georg Lang, 40, a teacher of woodcarving who is unrelated to either Alois or Anton Lang. A lively man of theories, he has eliminated much of the archaic flavor of the production; has, for example, substituted for the usual motley of costumes a color scheme of white, gold and grey...
...like Freemasonry, on the lodge system. It extols good citizenship, patriotism, scientific and cultural self-improvement. Its primary significance is not religious. It claims descent from an occult and ancient line supposedly including the Egyptian sages and Sir Fran cis Bacon. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson.* Its ritual is elaborate, archaic, Egyptian in symbolism. Imperator Lewis recently threatened suit against Mrs. Heindel of Oceanside because she employed the term Rosicrucian in connection with her fellowship...
...inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
...Since archaic times man has known and used carbon, sulfur, gold and silver. He first used copper in Egypt about 4000 B. C. About 3500 B. C. he found iron, and, somewhat later, lead. The Chaldaeans used tin 3500 years...