Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Canada, promptly sent him down again. Before the first round was over, in Montreal's Forum last week, Archie was decked once more for a nine count. The partisan crowd howled at the prospect of watching the long-delayed demise of boxing's most amazing relic. Said Archie later: "Every time I saw the referee, he was counting over...
...point of view. Jean Kerr's daisies bloom more bountifully in suburban soil than in Broadway asphalt. And early bang-bang Westerns and supercolossal Near-Easterns have not only had their tales pulled all too often, but also time and television have made the nickelodeon a cherished relic like the model T, fitter for nostalgia than satire. Out of early films Goldilocks fetches up some indulgent laughs, but never any period lure. And Goldilocks rather fits the formula it at one point joshes: it is "first of all a love story, a tale of two lovers in love with...
...scientists, the crucial point is this: in all the world, there is nothing like the moon. It is, in effect, a superbly preserved relic of the early days of the solar system, sealed off by space and time from contamination by the germs, clouds, and forms of living matter that have developed on the earth. The danger is, reported the council's Committee on Contamination by Extra-Terrestrial Exploration (CETEX), that heedless exploration efforts may contaminate the moon before it can be properly studied in its virgin state...
...General Conyers, a relic of the Boer War, where he may or may not have been the hero of an absurd cavalry charge, now a court official ("standing about at Buck House"), who likes to play Gounod's Ave Maria on a cello and has late in life taken up with Freud, Jung and Adler. C| Lord Warminster, from a decayed family who "probably made their money out of the Black Death" (1348-49); he is currently spending the last of the Black Death bonanza in sponsoring left-wing causes, and is suspected of hoping that when his estate...
...generally obvious to the present generation of the College, it was not so very long ago that Harvard men proudly boasted that the College was dedicated to the intelligent son of the rich father who also had gone to Harvard. Lest this attitude appear to be an almost forgotten relic of the Gold Coast days, it should be realized that at the present time Harvard College is very definitely moving in the direction of becoming, as the Admissions office speculated a month ago, "the intelligent rich man's college...