Word: archaice
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Housing should be speeded up by a $1 billion-a-year federal program, in large metropolitan centers, starting with those which agree to help batter down archaic building codes and labor featherbedding...
...capacity in the deep bowls behind the end zones, is one undeniable reason why the H.A.A.'s task of alloting seats is such a thankless one. But the confusion, the disappointment, the hard feelings, that accompanied distribution of seats for last fall's football games stemmed in part from archaic methods and inefficiency within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack of early notification of a possible sell-out, not to mention...
...Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful and dramatic...
...rising young magnate, the working rules of society have been shaped by business men. As industrial relationships became more complex and more impersonal, labor found that even though its greater productivity justified higher wages, shorter hours, and more consideration for workers as individuals, its demands were blocked by archaic social and legal structures, adapted to an era of elipper ships and water wheels...
...lamented in a recent article, the study of Latin "In this broad land . . . is in cups favlliarum." For this reason, perhaps, many students are inclined to pass over the Classics and their offerings both to concentrators and to those who are merely seeking a good extra course as an archaic institution whose last purpose in life was canceled when the Faculty abolished the ancient language requirement for the A. B. degree last fall...