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Nearly four decades ago, as a young doctor, I wrote about the promise and the failure of these mental asylums of olden days.

From US News • May 20, 2015

But does the merging of olden days cragginess and contemporary slickness show great pragmatism - retaining history but making it work for us - or should old buildings be more faithfully restored?

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2013

The players fashion meals of olden days using olden kitchen equipment—“No running water,” says one time-traveler of one trip, “just running back and forth.”

From Slate • Aug. 16, 2012

"Just think about it in terms of olden days when a king could suddenly banish everyone who wore red the day before," Yung explains.

From Newsweek • Feb. 23, 2010

Only one case passed under my personal notice but instances of olden days were related to me.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.




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