Word: attica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attica, N. Y., F. W. Robbins advertises that he is a Radiotrician, Electragist and Refrigerationer...
...announced that seven captured rioters would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year building program to increase prison accommodations by 3,000; 2) Construction of a new 1,000-men model prison at Attica; 3) Increase in prisoners' daily ration allowance from 21¢ to 26¢ 4) Work for every prisoner, with pay for all work...
Through the London Times came an appeal from Alexandros Philadelphus, onetime "director of the Acropolis and ephorus of the antiquities of Attica," addressed to Great Britain. It read: "As you know, our grand national monument, the great temple of the Goddess Athena, the immortal Parthenon, was deprived more than a century ago of its ornaments, those superb sculptures which constitute the invaluable treasure in your great national museum...
...deference to reason and ingrained classicism, he contrives a confidante for Helen: when Castor and Pollux rescued their sister from her first abductor, King Theseus of Attica, they took away with them Theseus' mother, queenly Aithre. Devoted bondslave, solicitous handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...