Word: relics
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...read in TIME, March 18, that Admiral Halsey and the former men of the U.S.S. Enterprise are trying to raise $350,000 for the purpose of buying her as a national relic. The idea of this great American ship being scrapped after her glorious war service brings to my mind the almost identical case of the U.S.S Constitution. The generosity of the American people helped save "Old Ironsides" and I am sure that we can count on them to save the "Big E" now. Please forward my small contribution to Admiral Halsey for her salvation. FRANK A. CUTTITA Loudonville...
...being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
With regrettable frequency, however, lectures became a "relic of the times before the printing press was invented." Often the lecturer would do himself and his students a service if he mimeographed his remarks and let the student read them quietly in a library. In any case, the danger of the lecture as a means of pouring out quantities of information which the student tries to blot up by frantic notetaking is apparent. The listener becomes the passive object of one-way communication with a vocal text-book...
...because they are afraid that they will be trained. Of course, the threat of training may well wipe out the National Guard, or a large segment of it. But this only proves that the National Guard is not worth saving, at least in its present form. It is a relic of a Jeffersonian fear of standing armies and in this day should not be given much consideration, especially by Congress. Put up your dukes, General Walsh, we're ready to fight...
...adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted in a moment of drunken glee that he had planted the pagan relic himself as a huge practical joke on "our deadly tame-cat ways and our cheap little suburban civilization...