Word: ancient
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Heirline. In London, the College of Arms, ancient and august authority on the pedigree of titled British families, officially requested that test-tube babies be barred by the government from inheriting titles of nobility...
...think, to face the fact honestly that religion is, and always has been, a political issue and that it is not improper for it to be so . . .So let us by all means not bar religion from politics. Let us even in this campaign ask ourselves anew the ancient questions about Church and State. But let us make sure we are asking them in the right way for our time...
Ulysses' ancient Odyssey with a bagful of spirited winds had something in common with the voyage that Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, embarked on last week. With Mills's hand on the tiller, the House committee killed off by a vote of 17 to 8 (ten Republicans, seven Democrats v. eight Democrats) the Forand bill (TIME, April 4), which would provide old-age medical and surgical benefits to Social Security pensioners at a cost -to be paid for by increased Social Security taxes-estimated to run $2 billion in the first...
...ANCIENT DRUGS. Scores of folk-medicine herbals have been credited (on folklore evidence) with reducing fertility. Modern medical scientists are now investigating tribal prescriptions from central Africa to the South Seas...
Paul's Cathedral. Whereas modern London provides 51 gallons of water a day for each citizen, and New York City about 154, ancient Rome at its peak pumped 300 gallons for each unwashed head.There may be a lesson here for some Toynbee of indoor plumbing-if only that, when Rome fell, it was with a splash...