Word: 1700s
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...laws of the 1700s got more intricate, but no more liberal. God-fearing schollars prepared for the Lord's day early, having to stay in on Saturday nights (of course Ye Olde Picadillie Fillie had not been built) and never forgetting to give thanks before leaving the dining hall...
Anyone wishing to forego the entrees du jour in the 1700s had to ask the president's permission to do so. "Bok would be a pretty busy fellow, wouldn't he," says Walcott...
...members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of Antioch in the 8th century. The Crusades brought the Maronites closer to Rome, and in the 1700s they were formally united, thus reinforcing their long and dearly held association with the West...
...Antonio, two young architects in shorts and T shirts clamber over the crumbling, eroded walls of Mission Concepcion, a church-cum-fortress built by the Spanish in the early 1700s. "These structures are dissolving," says John Schlinke, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia. "The stone is melting...
Rosebroch said that in the 1700s Harvard students slept together in large rooms or chambers, and the food was so poor that the wife of President Nathaniel Eaton felt compelled to apologize in writing for serving the boarders "goat's dung in their hasty pudding...