Word: relic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feeling has been that the only way to secure an adequate audience was the enforcement of attendance by the check method, allowing only a certain number of absences. In face of the growing tendency toward liberal feeling in the matter of attendance this policy seems indeed outdated and a relic of a regime which has long since left Harvard. The reason for its adoption was obvious, the lectures were not of sufficient interest to attract the undergraduate...
...majority of the rioters are drunkards. There is no objection, on moral grounds, to the tearing down of the goal-posts in the exuberance of a well-earned victory. But the free-for-alls, in which numerous people are injured, are not only sophomoric but dangerous. They are a relic of the old collegiate days, and an encouragement to a raucous element that attends the Stadium more for the ensuing fights than to view the games themselves...
...days things had been going from bad to worse with Major Charles St. John Rowlandson of London. He had debts that must be paid at once. On a £50,000 life insurance policy, relic of a happier day, he had already borrowed nearly £7,000. And, worst of all, his policy would lapse entirely unless he could rake and scrape together £1,500 to pay an overdue premium by 3 o'clock one afternoon last fortnight...
Patroness of the home, of miners, of mothers in labor, is Anne. One of the most popular saints in Christendom, she has 36 churches dedicated to her in the U. S.. 30 in England, uncounted others elsewhere. Few lack a splendidly mounted relic-some part of her body, some object which she touched. By pious account these were brought from the Holy Land in the year 710 to Constantinople, where they lay in famed St. Sophia until 1333. Greeks, Copts, Syrians venerated Anne in the 4th Century, but it was 800 years before she began to win the hearts...
That car is much more than a relic of Albert the Good. Ever since he first visited the U. S. in 1898 and learned to drive a locomotive under Railroader James J. Hill, mechanics was a burning hobby with King Albert. Up to the day of his death he drove his own car whenever possible. In the cellar of the Castle Laeken was a complete machine shop where he loved to putter. In that shop he worked with his own hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof...