Word: relics
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...says this old relic, "as I understand the matter we've always been in interested in producing educated men of character, proficiency in Latin and other subjects necessary to practice in the ministry and the other professions...
Lambert took a ride in a flare plane, an elderly, two-engine relic of World War II. Not long after the coppery Korean sunset had disappeared, the pilot called a ground station: "Hello, Bandbox. Hello, Bandbox. This is Firefly One, Firefly...
...that 8,000 policemen had been involved in the hunt. At one point, the police pursuit was costing Britain's taxpayers ?2,000 an hour. The Dean of Westminster, Dundee-born Dr. Alan Campbell Don, was distracted. Said he in a radio appeal: "It is the most precious relic we have ... I will go to the ends of the earth to recover...
...Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless and coarse...
...postwar vogue of the T-formation on gridiron after gridiron has made the old-fashioned single-wing formation seem almost like a relic of the days when players drop-kicked field goals. But a lot of spectators have been grumping about the trend. With the T-attack, they complain, football has become a game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" It takes a good grandstand man to tell...