Word: piraeus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When diehards denounced Dr. Antonakaki for bringing in "alien American influence," she retorted: "Heraclitus [circa 500 B.C.] was the first pragmatist," and he believed that the educator "establishes the productive relation of knowledge to life." She put her theories to the pragmatic test by founding a school in Piraeus where for three years orphan boys who had failed their entrance exams for the old-style classical high schools got the new, "harmonized" course of studies. When her students did better on their physics exams after three years than the traditionally educated students did after six, government officials were impressed. Last...
...corner of King George I and Filonos Streets, in the heart of Athens' seaport, Piraeus, last week, one of the most important Greek sculptures yet found came to light. Workmen ripping up the pavement found a pair of bronze hands protruding from the dirt four feet below street level. Archaeologists came on the run, uncovered a bronze Apollo, almost perfectly preserved, and worthy of the legendary sculptor Antenor, who lived in the 6th century B.C. The sculpture has much the same severity and grace that mark the bronze Charioteer at Delphi. It is a relic of the greatest moment...
From Portland, Ore. to Piraeus, seamen last week staged a four-day international boycott against ships flying the flags of Panama, Liberia, Honduras and Costa Rica, which, taken together, form the world's fastest-growing merchant fleet (717 in 1951, 1,695 today). The boycott, sponsored by the International Transport Workers' Federation, which claims 200 affiliates in 62 nations with 7,000,000 members, was the start of a campaign to harass owners of "convenience" or "runaway" flag vessels, so called because the PanLibHonCo nations levy negligible taxes, have lower labor and safety standards than...
Architects drew up plans based on the findings of the archaeologists. Limestone and marble were brought in from the quarries at Piraeus and Mt. Pentelikon that had supplied materials for the original building. Even the clay for the new roof tiles was dredged from the same clay beds on the outskirts of Athens. Only in the heart of the building (where they could not be seen) were new materials, such as reinforced concrete, used to give added strength...
...factory shower room. What they didn't tell the girl was that, along with 23 companions, they had entered the shower room through a 55-ft.-long tunnel, dug under the street from Vourlon Prison. With the girl's curiosity thus satisfied and the rest of Piraeus drowsing in the Sunday sun, the 27 escapees, all Communists, sauntered out into the street and casually boarded passing buses to freedom...