Word: datedness
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Only ten years had passed since the University of Louisville celebrated its first 100 years with three months of banquets and festivities. The university had modestly dated its beginning from 1837, when the citizens of Louisville decided to build the first municipal university in the U.S. Last week, however, President...
"TIME is a 'weekly newsmagazine.' In this word 'news' the word 'current' is included. The edition which we get to read here is the Paris-printed Atlantic Overseas Edition, identical in editorial content to the original American edition and usually obtainable here exactly on...
The film is prettily produced and directed. Teresa Wright does delicate things with her eyes a little too often and too mechanically, as if she knew better than to put her heart into this kind of dated nonsense. She is quite right.
Stone Palimpsest. Much of the Abbey of Monte Cassino, at the time the bombers destroyed it, dated only from the 17th Century; for it had suffered already, through more than a millennium, under the Lombards and the Saracens, and the Napoleonic French, and by earthquake as well. But some remained...
Hence the saying of Toynbee admirers that the writing of history must be dated B.T. and A.T.-Before Toynbee and After Toynbee.