Word: 10th
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Edward William Spencer Cavendish, enormously wealthy 10th Duke of Devonshire, faced a period of inactivity as High Steward of Cambridge University, now that the House of Commons had voted to suspend the death penalty. Disclosed the Duke: "My only known duty as High Steward"-which he had never performed in ten years-"had been to attend the hanging of any undergraduate...
...Coulson in 10th. HARVARD ab r h po a e Gannon, cf 4 0 2 2 0 0 Caulfield, rf 4 0 0 1 0 0 Mannino, ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 Sullivan, ss 1 0 0 0 1 1 Coulson, 1b 4 0 0 13 0 0 Lunder, lf 4 1 1 2 0 0 Huntington, 2b 4 1 2 3 4 1 Coppinger, 3b 3 1 0 1 4 0 Essayen, c 3 0 0 8 0 1 Godin, p 3 0 0 0 4 0 *Roche 0 1 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- Totals...
Live & Learn. In Salt Lake City, 15-year-old Alice Martinez, who had dashed into the side of a moving auto at 10th Avenue and E Street, was treated for scratches and shock, released from the hospital, ran off to tell some friends, shortly dashed into the side of a moving auto at 10th Avenue and E Street, was taken to the hospital, treated for scratches and shock...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
Thomas Erskine, son of the Scottish 10th Earl of Buchan, is still regarded by many legal scholars as the greatest advocate ever to come before a jury. Usually "for the defense," he pleaded the most historic cases in one of England's most history-packed periods. For his time, he was the great courtroom defender of English civil liberties...