Word: relics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West. A relic of the days when basketball rules as well as basketball rivalries were purely local are conventions of play like the Pacific Coast Conference system whereby each team plays its rivals four times, twice on each one's court. Last week Stanford, apparently the best team in, its Conference and one of the best in the country, beat California at Berkeley, 36-to-32, in a game featured by the fact that its 6 ft. 3 in. forward, Hank Luisetti, whom Coach John Bunn calls the greatest player in the history of the game, was held...
...Mohammedan theory that "all are equal before Allah in prayer," the World's Richest Man prostrated himself with his subjects at the Great Mosque and everyone prayed. Poems were recited and the venerable Hindu Premier read an address hailing his Mohammedan Monarch as "today the sole relic of Mogul greatness in India...
Apparently the time when sex could be discussed only behind closed doors and in subdued whispers has become a relic of the past at Vassar. Consciousness of the ever-present dangers of marital entanglements has led the administration to agree that correspondence schools should not hold a monopoly on such valuable instruction...
...President, as pertinent to this particular subject, I ask unanimous consent that the clerk read an interesting relic of real constitutional government...
Thunderous applause broke from the galleries. After aroused New Dealers had unbosomed themselves for ten minutes, unreconstructed Mr. Glass again got to his feet. "Mr. President, I distinctly stated when asking to have the message of a great Democratic President read . . . that it was 'a relic of constitutional government.' ... I merely desire to indicate now that I am not one of the Senators who is proud of the fact that some people in Virginia want to make a pawnshop out of the Treasury of the U. S. . . . Mr. President, I had not purposed to raise a riot...