Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened it to the Oath of the Tennis Court, the signing of Magna Carta, of the Treaty of Versailles. Others were more skeptical; among them...
Again comes an outburst from the entrant terrible of contemporary literature. In the current issue of Menckeniana, Sinclair Lewis levels a loaded pen at "Sell Conscious America". Returning from the new Magna Americana on the left bank of the Sethe, he is ready to place another Maine Street beside those of the maligned Middle West. There is little difference, in his opinion, between the multiple masses of the mediocre who are content with the Sunday suppliments and those who fill Paris with their now conventional caprice. The self consciousness of the one matches that of the ether. "To have...
...usually controversial, not to be written from text-books. It ought, however, to imply the study of important events and of a fairly long period, so that a series of eight essays approximates a connected study of what we should call a course. Such, for example, as "Was Magna Carta a reactionary fuedal document?" or "What was the effect of the French Revolution on English Politics and on the reform movement?" The essay should take some sixteen hours of preparation. It is possible to scamp the work a bit, but it is hard to believe that an Oxford tutor could...
...Tripoli, work has been going forward in uncovering the city of Leptis Magna, birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus. The city, 100 miles east of Tripoli, and about five miles from the sea at the present time, was formerly a seaport as the discovery of elaborate wharves proves. It was almost two miles square and the ruins are now buried in from 10 to 50 ft. of sand. A great palace, several statues and baths have been uncovered, and a series of columns nine metres high...
...Spectator (London), independent Conservative weekly, contained this statement: "This is a new reading of English history, under which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discomfort and inconvenience- not by any means an unattractive reading!" priest, Don Sturzo, the Party professed undying hostility to Benito; but, because the Premier was trying to conciliate the Catholics, many members of the Party sympathized with him, seceded, became political nonentities...