Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldest legitimate theatrical producers in the country. . . . This tax is one of the things that practically make spoken drama extinct. I think I know more about the theatre than Secretary Mellon does. . . . The movie show can be carried in a round tin can, the vaudeville sketch provides its own lines and scenery, all baseball needs to operate is bats and balls; but the legitimate producer must make his own scenery and pay his actors and the crew of the theatre. All the movie companies, baseball and vaudeville have paid dividends, but no legitimate company is able to do so. Otis...
...annoying" or "scandalous" events marked the bombing and shelling of Damascus, "oldest inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...
...oldest books in the world, antedating the New Testament a couple of centuries, quite as old as Aesop's Fables, which it much resembles. Two thousand and more years ago it was written (some say) in the fastnesses of Kashmir, by whom one cannot know, but surely by a great man, for its stories are retold the world over. Never before has it been completely translated from its original Sanskrit into English...
...Harvard Observatory, one of the oldest in America, is also one of the most famous astronomical institutions in the world. Its photographic collection is by far the largest in the world, and is used in the problems of stellar evolution; the history of the stars, and the dimensions and structure of the sidereal universe...
...football teams of the two oldest colleges in America clash this afternoon at two o'clock on Soldiers Field. The William and Mary eleven, expected to show a dangerous forward passing attack, may give Harvard's heavier team much to think about before the game is over...