Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowd. It is more than football, however, that will draw eighty thousand spectators into the Michigan stadium. To the alumni of the middle-west the team represents a vital connecting link between themselves and Harvard, and the Michigan adherents see the players in the light of emissaries from an ancient and famous college of the East to one of the out-standing universities of the middle-west...
...Savior, the Holy Virgin and the Deity he writes: "Ancient and modern myths are only meaningless pictures which are fading out. Sooner or later the celestial personalities will be no more than a memory of fairyland. Face to face with the universe, man will be the sole evidence of his audacious dreams of divinity, since the god he vainly sought is himself...
...practice of exchanging professors necessarily involves some sacrifice. Those who are looking forward next year to sitting under Professor Lowes will undoubtedly feel a sense of deprivation. But for that loss, not only the new experience which ancient Oxford is to enjoy, but also the advantage of welcoming new personalities here in future years, will be ample compensation...
...found in some letter of Pulaski, published in Paris in 1786, a prophecy of the return of Poland to her ancient position of honor among the nations, and of the coming friendship between the French and English peoples...
Several large investment firms try to calm the "little man", by offering him the eternal panacea that business must win. And the selling goes merrily on while quotations race unconcernedly to new lows Speculation still sits firmly in the saddle for "An ancient prejudice has been removed, American intelligence is on the exchange...