Word: relic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreary, five-story school on the edge of Harlem, is a relic of the school-building programs of 1888. The building has no gymnasium, and its tiny playground is hardly large enough for one class at a time. It has just seven toilets for 600 boys, provides neither toilet paper nor towels. Children attending the school periodically suffer from scabies, a skin disease usually caused by filth...
Topaze (adapted from the French of Marcel Pagnol by Benn W. Levy; produced by Yolanda Mero-Irion & the New Opera Company) triumphed on Broadway just 18 years ago. Returning last week, it looked like a genuine theatrical relic. It still had traces of gay cynicism, Gallic sprightliness and wit. But it wheezed, wobbled, and seemed all the sadder for trying to look jaunty...
...relic of an older day and an older creed of senatorial seniority and personal privilege, Kenneth McKellar sat, bowed and disconsolate, as his colleagues voted 36-to-31 to confirm Gordon Clapp...
...Connecticut, it is still a misdemeanor for a doctor to advise, or a citizen to practice, birth control.* This 68-year-old blue law, a relic of Anthony Comstock's crusades, is widely disregarded, seldom enforced. But Connecticut's doctors, who object to being lawbreakers, even technically, have tried eleven times in the past 24 years to get the law repealed. Last week, as they tried once again, Connecticut medicine was shaken by one of its biggest rows in years...
...Chief relic now from the south-of-the-border influence of the scholarly House Master Clarence H. Haring '07, are the Argentine cigarettes which he freely dispenses on Monday afternoons when he and his wife extend their hospitality to House members...