Word: attica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is made clear in Durant's history, the first written since full publication in 1936 of Sir Arthur Evans' great report on archaic Crete. The almost Parisian graces of Crete's strange society were remembered by the tough fighting tribes who displaced it, settling in Attica and on the Aegean islands. In one variety of toughness-the kind that rebels against concentration of riches and power -the Athenians were remarkable. About 600 B.C. they produced a statesman who averted bloody revolution by sage persuasion...
AVERY D. POWELL, M. D. Attica, Ohio...
...Attica. N. Y., oldtime commuters on the Attica-Batavia branch of the New York Central Railroad planned a lugubrious "last-ride" ceremony to celebrate the discontinuance of the line. The ceremony was canceled when somebody found that, unnoticed, part of the line already had been torn...
Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the Straits of Salamis and quietly and unofficially sent ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been...
...Buffalo, sentenced to seven years in Attica Prison for stealing 100 chickens, Max Zulek remarked, "O.K." Thereupon bad-tempered Judge F. Bret Thorn said, "If that's O.K., I'll make it ten years." "O.K.," reiterated Max Zulek...