Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth of 20; Balthazar, King of Ethiopia, was a black man of about 40; Melchior, King of Arabia, was supposed to be 60. Their remains were said to have been found by St. Helena, the relic-hunting mother of Constantine the Great, and later brought to Cologne Cathedral, which claims them today...
...other hand, many people have supposed that as a member of a high-principled and benevolent Eastern family, he would not be found on the side of Mundt-McCarthyrite principles. His support of the student loyalty oath, that fatuous relic of the hysterical era which no other Western country would be silly enough to dream up, comes as an apparent shock...
...seen it rising above squat Moscow, Napoleon might have paused. For the 32-story Palace of Science, showpiece of Moscow State University, catches the visitor's eye* as the Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off as just what he intended: the biggest wedding cake in the store window of Soviet education. Next year five U.S. professors will discover what such education means. Last week Columbia University began looking for volunteers to teach at Moscow University in the first formal professorial exchange between the two countries. What...
...masked Cambridge firemen hauled away an old refrigerator which routed students from C-entry of Dunster House early this morning. Escaping sulfur dioxide, from a broken tube in the relic, spread from the fourth floor to the basement, creating a mild panic among the Dunster ranks...
...badly-battered relic of last year's Ivy League football champions will be out for blood at Soldiers Field this afternoon when winless Dartmouth tries to avenge last season's 16-8 victory...