Word: relics
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...with all the flailing this required, the hatchets were bound to mangle something they should not have. They did. They chopped fall reading period into a miserable relic, all of eight days long. Last year's ten day reading period was inadequate enough, and the University spared itself vehement complaints only by asserting that its brevity was due to an unfortunate juncture of the calendar and Corporation by-laws which would never happen again. Not only is this year's shorter, however, but apparently it is permanent as well...
...Maurice Feltin celebrated a special Mass at Notre Dame. At the Sorbonne, more than 100 blind delegates from 22 countries assembled for a memorial in Braille's honor. Meanwhile, the citizens of Coupvray performed a ceremony of their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...
...help. Inquisitive Roman legionaries made some confusing excavations. One of the larger stones, or Trilithons, is said to have fallen in 1620 when the Duke of Buckingham dug for buried gold. For years a Salisbury hotel kept a heavy hammer for the use of guests who were amateur relic hunters...
...words: "A generation drab in dress is drab in outlook." Tailors, he added, should strive for "restrained enterprise" in men's clothing. The sharp eyes of Savile Row cutters noted the speaker's own restraint: a double-breasted brown suit, cream shirt and frayed black tie (a relic of his days in U.S. Navy uniform...
...Grand Tour was not already a relic, draft board officials are doing their best to crush its last vestiges. But this is not actually their intention, and under the present system they can do little else...