Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...mayors of 5,000 U. S. cities throughout the land have gone letters from Charleston, S. C. Each letter asked each mayor to broadcast the news that Charleston was this week having a 250th birthday party, to advise all onetime Charlestonians to return to their ancient city to join the refined festivities. The U. S. Government helped Charleston celebrate by issuing a commemorative 2? postage stamp, by sending Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley and Chief of Staff Charles Pelot Summerall to stand with South Carolina's Governor John Gardiner Richards and North Carolina's Governor Oliver...
...Sultan Moulay Ismail, "The Bloodthirsty," fell to grieving over the moral and physical disintegration of his Arab soldiers. He noticed that the black slaves brought to him from distant Senegal were lion-muscled, superbly built, and as fierce fighters as those ancient Arabs from North Africa who in the 8th Century had swept across southern Spain...
...Washington. He was fidgeting nervously, smiling sheepishly under a barrage of praise which was going out to scores of notables who sat peering at him from the audience, and to radio listeners all over the world. It was Dr. Welch's 80th birthday party. To uphold the ancient custom of birthday present-giving the committee in charge of the celebration was hard put. No degrees could they give Dr. Welch; he had 18. Medals would not answer; he had plenty of them. On other occasions he had been given the presidencies of most of the prominent medical societies...
...Book of Mormon (522 pages in a recent edition) contains the history of ancient peoples (among them the Lamanites), who supposedly inhabited the Western Hemisphere, coming variously from the Tower of Babel and Jerusalem. They had apostles and prophets even as the Biblical peoples. One of these was called Mormon. To them Christ appeared. He ordained that, after the age of apostasy, his true church should be reestablished somewhere in the Americas. That re-establishment was what took place in 1830 in the Fayette farmhouse. At that time considerable numbers of the ancient Lamanites were still alive. They were customarily...
Advantages pointed out for the new method, over the pressure method devised by the ancient Chinese: no great expense for initial plant installation, no expert labor required, low maintenance cost. The resulting oil is purer than that recovered by other methods, and the residue in the vats makes an almost predigested cattle food, superior to the "cake" derived by other methods...