Word: mace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ceremonially wigged and gowned, Speaker of the House Arthur Stumbles eased himself into his heavy chair while his symbolic golden mace was laid on the table in front of him. Thus, making up in pomp what it lacks in representation, Rhodesia's white-dominated Parliament was called to order last week for the first time since Prime Minister Ian Smith seized independence...
Tracing the progressive refinement of artifacts, Sir Herbert outlined their evolutionary sequence in terms of refinement to maximum efficiency, and then further refinement to form. When this occurs, as in the case of a tool becoming a ceremonial object (for example, the ax becoming a mace), form is divorced from function, and thus freed to develop on the laws and principles called esthetics...
...Smashed Mace. Chief Samuel L. Akintola, who became deputy leader of the Action Group and Western Region premier, last May rebelled against Awolowo's policies, was sacked as deputy leader and dismissed as the West's premier (he was later reinstated by court order). Awolowo's high-handed reprisals led to a chair-throwing melee in the Western Region assembly at Ibadan in which the ceremonial mace was shattered and the politicians subdued with tear...
...very important for teachers to maintain contact with business and industry to derive realism from the outside world," Myles Mace, assistant dean of the Business School, said...
Dean Orth will direct programs in post-graduate education, and he will be responsible for all alumni relations of the Business School under the direction of Associate Dean Myles Mace...