Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teatro Comunale in ancient Florence one night last spring, it seemed to the swank audience watching the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, part of the city's "Musical May" festival, that Dancer Leonide Massine was behaving oddly indeed. Dark, wiry, as fleet-footed as ever for his years (40), the maître de ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine...
With all the science of 5,000 years of civilization at his command, a Connecticut geology professor last week was puzzled by a problem which intrigued ancient Ulysses. Ulysses watched the slim dark fishes dart from the Mediterranean, spread their big fins, and shoot through the air 25 to 30 m.p.h. for as long as 13 seconds, just as Magellan watched them, just as U. S. holiday voyagers on cruises to Havana and Caribbean ports watch them. But do they fly or glide...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...
...southwest corner of Idaho is a rugged land pocked by ancient volcanic activity. Once a desolate region covered by sagebrush, it has been reclaimed by irrigation. The soil, largely volcanic ash, is fertile with minerals. The rock beneath is honeycombed with caverns and air pockets, the result of ancient, igneous intrusions...
...sports are more ancient than lawn bowling. It was played in 12th-Century England and by the time of Henry VIII had provoked such a riotous fever of ambling that even that riotous monarch put it down by law. First notable U. S. player was George Washington, who had a bowling green* at Mount Vernon. A fresh-air cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts...