Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once upon a time Harvard Freshmen lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth life in dormitories and rooming houses all over Cambridge. Today first-year men dwell in the ancient Yard, deeded to the College in 1936; in the Harvard Union they had together, play pool, dance, and study...
...certainly true that Antarctic coal will not be important to the U. S. in the near future. However, no mineral could be more valuable, in the perpetually frozen country where artificial heat is essential for maintaining human life. . . . There are many contacts between batholitic intrusions and ancient sedimentary rocks which generally are the locations of valuable mineral deposits. No great mineral bonanzas have been discovered to date. However, no continent the size of Antarctica has failed to produce a wealth of mineral deposits...
Remember the Warwick? On St. George's Eve, 1918, she put out to sea for Zeebrugge, leading 74 scarecrow vessels- a nearly obsolete cruiser, some ferryboats, three old light cruisers loaded with concrete, two ancient submarines packed with explosives, and a swarm of tiny motor launches and smoke-boats. Their job was to block the Bruges Canal, from which U-boats had been darting on their deadly errands. As they set out, Vice Admiral Roger Keyes signaled the others: "St. George for England," and one answered: "May we give the dragon's tail a damned good twist...
...Hambletonian itself, the ancient starting method was used. Ten times the ten horses went over the starting line, ten times were sent back. It was apparent that three drivers with bad scoring positions were trying to tire Gauntlet, the pole horse. On the eleventh score, the starter finally said...
...then goes through hell & hot water to give them back. Although this fable is energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting his version of the battle of Balaclava with fruit and cutlery at the dinner table...