Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically the new Wilson Pre-Selective Gearbox which triumphed at the London Show last week is only a great and suave improvement on Henry Ford's ancient "planetary transmission" of immortal Model T. Last week the 8-h. p. British Ford was not pre-selective, had a gear lever of conventional U. S. type. From France came Andre Citroen's latest, a car with floating power"-by permission of Walter P. Chrysler who has leased the French rights of his moteur flottant to "The Ford of France...
...Munich, earlier in the week, aristocratic Chancellor von Papen, no baby-kisser, made himself solid by devouring publicly a huge plateful of the ancient city's long, white sausages and washing them down with frothing Münchner. He then launched into a fighting speech, shouted that other powers must at once grant to Germany the right of "armament equality" with themselves. Finally he drew thunderous Munich cheers by asking, ''How can our commerce nourish, if Germany does not enjoy the same respect abroad as other nations? Who will invest in a land which is constantly threatened...
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...
...appearance of continually having tears running down his cheeks. ... He was negligent, even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long held by Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland who last month was ordered out of ancient Hollis Hall by his physician (TIME, Sept. 12). Like "Copey," he could stir youth with his public readings; like "Copey" he was crotchety and cantankerous on the platform. Only President's son to become President himself, he was even less popular than his father had been. Elected in spite...