Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profess an aversion for "the an-achronistic chariot of war" and disclaim "any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments"; then you propose to abolish these evils by increasing the number who can drive the anachronistic chariot!. You admire the prospective course for the "idental discipline" it will afford, yet how long has the CRIMSON stood for discipline of the absolute, goose-step variety in any field...
...such people, together with those who rightly wish to keep academic cloisters free from the correspondence variety of learning, have already hinted that the course in naval science about to be inaugurated at Harvard, is as repulsive (as it is unnecessary. The one sees learning hitched to the anachronistic chariot of war: the other visions an even more despicable pantomime. Neither is exactly correct...
...What seemed "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine"? (See BUSINESS...
...over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father's death), he hitched four horses to an ungainly contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled, slaves giggled as the burly 22-year-old inventor and his clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. Farmer Ruff, owner of the oats, called...
Colonial--"Ben Hur", at 8.15: Ben Hur labors to overtake Messalla's chariot and those millions of dollars spent on production...