Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Lincoln's Inn Club, the oldest in the Law School, has not definitely decided upon its new site, the Chancery Club, meeting heretofore in the Union, has already leased a house at 44 Follen Street. The building will have ample space for about 60 men at meal time, and there will be living quarters for 16 members...
...athlete in half a century of I. C. A. A. A. A. competition has put the shot 50 feet. Perhaps we will see that magic mark surpassed for the first time tomorrow or Saturday in the Stadium when the oldest of track associations celebrates its golden anniversary...
What time the vernal lawns are shaved and rolled, and school grounds become drenched in sunshine and bird song, studying in books and teaching out of them become burdensome. At young ladies' seminaries and colleges, undergraduates then have dreams and ideas more mature than the oldest wight on earth, and their greying mistresses are stirred by impulses of an age with the buds outside the window. Wherefore an old pagan custom is then revived, its original nature made innocent by thousands of springs. The Maypole is erected. Virgins dance in white fluttering things. A Queen...
Javelin throwing is one of the oldest forms of athletic competition known to man. It traces back to the spear throwing days of the Vikings when javelins were thrown from ship to ship as implements of warfare. Even further back, as long ago as 400 B. C., historians tell us that the Roman armies had special coaches to instruct in the javelin throw. Today the athlete throws a spear which weighs 800 grams or 1 pound 12 1-2 ounces; in the pre-Christian era the spears weighted about 400 grams and were thrown with the aid of a piece...
...cities discovered by our expedition the oldest is Okop, some sixty miles form the coast, or much further inland than the others and further south than all except Muyll, which is in about the same latitude. We know by looking at its architecture that Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared...