Word: ancient
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...Persians are proud of their Leader and fervently hope to regain the ancient prosperity under the skilful guidance of their beloved King...
Latin scholars may be satisfied with your interpretations of the meaning of the words "habeas corpus," TIME, Feb. 20, "Law Thaw," but lawyers are not. You apparently suggest that this ancient writ is addressed to the imprisoned man's friend or counsel, when you translate the words "You may have the body," but the words are to be treated as a command, "You shall have the body," and are addressed to the sheriff or such other person as may be holding the "body" in custody. The writ reads something like this. "We command that you shall have the body...
Charles Francis Adams, President Hoover's retiring Secretary of the Navy, president-elect of Boston's ancient Athenaeum (library-see p. 20), was elected to the board of American Telephone 6 Telegraph Co. from which he resigned in 1929 after serving 17 years. Secretary Adams was appointed to the advisory board of Boston's Massachusetts Investors Trust last December, accepted a trusteeship in Century Shares Trust last month. As everyone expected after President Walter Sherman Gifford's near-promise in the annual report, A. T. & T.'s board last week declared the regular $2.25 quarterly...
Somewhere in its dazzling square mile of yellow-tiled buildings, Henry Pu Yi was born, son of the favorite grandnephew of the ancient Dowager Empress who made him heir to the Dragon throne of the "Great Pure" dynasty and all its treasures. In its interminable throne halls, temples, palaces, marble courts and concubines' quarters the Boy Emperor lived. Except for U. S. and European soldiers who looted it during the Boxer Rebellion, not 20 white men in the world had set foot in that forbidden preserve until the fall of the Empire in 1911. Until 1911, it contained...
...General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests...