Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced that on March 19, festival of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, he would celebrate a solemn mass of expiation, propitiation, reparation, for Russia's sacrilege, would make special appeal to Russia's ancient protectors, St. Basil, St. Nicholas, St. Cyrillus, St. Therese. He asked all Christians to join him, offered confident assurance: "Divine providence on the moment designated by it will prepare to give the necessary means to repair the moral and material ruins of those immense regions, which constitute a sixth part of the whole universe...
...difficulties in presenting Chinese drama to an Occidental public are considerable. For Chinese drama is not Classic or Romantic, realistic or idealistic, sentimental or satiric?it does not fit in any of the categories which Occidental critics have devised to describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds to the extent that he masters this vast, intricate bodily symbolism, the medium of an art far older than Shakespeare...
Analysis of fifteen language, ancient and modern gives statistical proof that this new law of language applies to syllables as well as words. With mechanical accuracy the more common cases of inflected nouns in Sanskrit are accented on the stem, while less used cases, genitive and dative for example, are accented on the endings to aid the hearer's ear. "For man's tendency to laziness," says Zipf, "will prevent his accenting any element in language which his hearer will understand with cut accent...
...also with individual sounds: Zipf has gathered statistics in thirteen languages as widely separated in time and space as Bulgarian, Italian, and Sanskrit, and finds in them a startling confirmation of his theory. For in all these tongues, offsprings of the ancient Indo-European parent, the less "conspicuous" sounds are the more frequent. Thus "t" occupies about 7 per cent in all these languages, "d" about 3, 1-2 per cent; the very "conspicuous" "dh" is rarest of all dentals...
...quite reticent on the theory and practice of the Eighteenth Amendment. Although, in the eyes of some persons, students may be better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry will prove at least novel. At any rate, the ancient adage that the younger generation should confine its personality to the desert air is going to receive another setback...