Word: scholiasts
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...other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare fretted: "Why can't we get a good conservative like Richard Kerr to do some writing for us?" Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast...
...result of Secretary of War Stimson's announcement a month age, the presumption now is that all enlistees in the Military Reserve may expect to be inducted into the regular Army at the end of the scholiast term in which they attain their draft age. Exception may be made, however, in the case of a very few pre-med, pre-dental, and electronics concentrators. "I am willing to guess," said Perkins, "with the situation as vague as it is, that we will have a clear statement from the War Department within the next two or three weeks...
...with their sacred accounts of the Lamanites, a lost tribe of Israel, whose religion Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were divinely commanded to resurrect. Historians viewed askance the use of the initials "A.D." (Anno Domini) in the inscriptions. This calendar term was first suggested in 775 by the English scholiast, Bede; came into general use about 1000. In January, a retired cattleman of Tucson told of an educated young Mexican sculptor, Timotio Odohui, who had lived with his parents at the limekiln 40 years ago and molded articles in a soft metallic alloy much like lead. Odohui...
...Records of the Faculty during the years when he was its Registrar, and those of the Parietal Board when he was its Chairman, not only show his deep interest in the affairs of these boards, but contain many specimens of his humor, some of which now need a scholiast to elucidate them...
...Vetruvian stage, ten feet above the great circles of the orchestra where the chorus were grouped, or whether actors as well as chorus performed in the orchestra, is of great importance even to the general reader, as the whole stage action is involved. Until very lately, scholars following the scholiast have interpreted Greek drama from the standpoint of the existence of a stage, basing their opinions first on the authority of the scholia and certain phrase. which were taken to refer to the passages up or down of the actor as he went up the stairs to the stage from...