Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
...Kent some human skull fragments which he thought to be of antiquity comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull is the most important fossil discovery made in England during his lifetime...
...School, four 20-year-old second lieutenants were seized with an inspiration to improve on antiquity. Next morning, for the first time in 1,000 years, the rays of the rising sun discovered a new glory in Stonehenge. A glistening coat of green paint instead of dull lichens covered ancient dolmens. Atop great menhirs sat shining chamber pots...
...refusal to welcome you, Dear Cat, is not to be taken as a personal slight, but merely as our protest against spending taxpayers' money for ancient art objects . . . with a relief crisis in our midst...
...secret half-belief in an old family legend that he is descended from the Green People, a species of sea gypsies who live in an underground world called St. Martin's Land. A few days later he meets a tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane...