Word: herodotus
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...Herodotus states that every Babylonian gentleman carried a seal. European museums have thousands of these objects, partly cylindrical, partly avoid, often inscribed with the owner's name, and provided with engravings in great variety of form. The Semitic Museum has several hundred, and not a few of our clay books are stamped with seal impressions, the original of which have never-yet been found. Only real masters of intaglio can have produced seals of such high degree of excellence...
...income of over $5,000,000. The frightened young dupe who cowered behind the alias of "Mr. A." will now be one of the five reigning princes of India who are entitled to a salute.of 21 guns outside of their own state. He will rule over the Kasparturos of Herodotus, over the land of nightingales and roses, the vales of Kashmir...
...more--all that has remained after the centuries' old oppression by the Turks--belonging to a progressive race established in Asia Minor since time immemorial, that has rendered invaluable services to literature, civilization, and Christianity, is being exterminated or exiled from their country which gave the world Homer, Euclid, Herodotus and other masters of thought...
...carrying out of specialization which, on the whole, is characteristic of our educational system today. What sort of a man is it who stuffs himself with useless information? Mr. Gay gives a list of men equipped with "out-at-the-elbow, down-at-the-heel sort of minds" including Herodotus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Scott, Anatole France and others...
...Herodotus's phoenix had nothing on the new-born "Dial" which has risen from the ashes of the old and is thriving under the inspired ministrations of Scofield Thayer '13 and Gilbert Seldes...