Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a coach inherits a bunch of Sophomores lacking in outstanding ability local sportswriters generally conclude their remarks about the squad with the ancient blurb, "--but the spirit is fine!" It is the choice of this writer to start, rather than conclude, his remarks with the blurb, for if what is called 'spirit' now can be translated into hard training for the duration of the season, then something tangible will have been achieved in the way of improvement. This, Coach Ulen will tell you, comes only from practice of the most strenuous sort...
...Sukkur, Sind slope like unkempt stairs down to the banks of the Indus, Indians who loudly object to fighting Germans in the name of Empire last week fought each other in the name of their various gods. Moslems, claiming the Manzilghaut (Government building) near the river as an ancient mosque site, besieged it, captured it, and threatened to hold it until nirvana-come. Whereupon Hindus swept the city, storming, looting, burning Moslem shops...
...Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln...
...ancient saying, sell when the good news is out, might account for these typical examples of recent stockmarket behavior. But certainly the stockmarket which bounded ahead enthusiastically when war commenced, last week showed a phenomenal indifference, if not distaste, for good news...
...Roman ancestors of present-day Fascists fought three full-length wars with a first-class Semitic power-Carthage. For 17 years Semitic Generalissimo Hannibal made Italy unsafe for Italians; Scipio, played by Cinemactor Annibale (Hannibal) Ninchi, finally defeated him at Zama, near Carthage. Scipio Africanus reviews this ancient history with Latin enthusiasm, Roman corpses, blazing villas, trumpeting war elephants, clanking swords. Up-to-the-minute double meanings for ardent Fascists: 1) the Semite is still public enemy No. 1; 2) conquered Carthage stood in what is now Fascist-coveted French Tunis...