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...TIME'S "archaic" usage is employed for clarity. The title of "Governor" is commonly followed by the surname of the officeholder without the first name or the sex title ("Mr." or "Mrs."). Both Governess Ferguson of Texas and Governess Ross of Wyoming were preceded in office by their husbands. To employ the "modern" usage, "Governor Ferguson," etc., would not indicate whether the present Governess or her husband were meant...
...High brow," the definition implied by Newspaperdom, is a loose, archaic slang-word, absurd in its application to the normal, intelligent people for whom TIME is written...
This is not a quotation from an archaic book on medicine. It is a theory put forward by Dr. W. H. Taliaferro of the University of Chicago, who has been experimenting with rat blood as a cure for sleeping sickness. "Rats are immune to sleeping sickness," says he. "There are evidences that they produce certain immune bodies in their blood which will have an important bearing on the eradication of the disease...
...badly adopted to the task the organization of a body or committee may be, the amount it will accomplish will be in direct proportion to the quantity of initiative, leadership, and willingness to work exhibited by the members composing the body. Although hampered as had been it predecessors by archaic organization and unwieldy membership, nevertheless last year's Council because of the character of a few of its members, loft behind a series of accomplishments unequalled for years past...
...Kurt Sachs, Curator of the Collection of Instruments at the Berlin High School for Music. The tablet comes from ancient Assur, capital of Assyria, and was inscribed in cuneiform characters about the year 800 B. C. It contains three columns: The first is the mysterious music; the second, in archaic Sumerian, an account of the creation of Man from the blood of the gods; the third, a translation of this into Assyrian...