Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battling over battleships and sweating over statistics today is the Senate Naval Affairs Committee in Washington. Whatever else the bicker and banter proves, it is apparent that the ancient American dream of a-navy-second-to-none is to be given dollars-and-cents substance. Justification for the proposed huge naval expenditures is the straw-man of German and Japanese aggression...
...problem is a very ancient one, and speculation about it began with the astronomer Ptolemy in 150 A. D., they said...
Dead and wrapped in lava long ago are Hawaii's ancient rulers. Dead too are some of the craters whence Pele flung her red-hot wrath. But in Kilauea a molten lake still lies, bubbling and puckering, rising and sinking, belching fumes, occasionally spilling over, dribbling Kilauea's flanks with fire. High above Kilauea, in old Mauna Loa, Pele still broods. Five years ago she hurled a 600-ft.-wide stream of lava down towards Hilo, principal city of the island of Hawaii. The lava was only three miles from the municipal water reservoir, within twelve miles...
...advantages of cooperatives were many. They fitted much better than huge plants into the ancient Chinese tradition of household craft industry. The units were mobile, easily disguised, easily housed, and were not, like big factories, obvious targets for Japanese bombers...
Thus aired again was an ancient medical controversy which had resulted in starvation for one scientist, insanity for a second, suicide for a third...