Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside, the sun shone on resplendent Dutch tulips. In The Hague's 18th Century Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall), Britain's Winston Churchill, the greatest of living Europeans and perhaps the greatest of living men, stood forth, pink and pleased...
...Griffin, Ga., last week, a lanky high-school senior struck out his 18th batter in seven innings, and clinched the ballgame, 6-4. Pitcher Hugh Frank Radcliffe, 19, was pitching the kind of ball that had already brought major-league scouts to his doorstep. It was his fourth victory in four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast...
...There is no doubt in Kansas City as to who runs the town. It's big Roy Roberts, mighty, cigar-chewing mogul who sits complacently on his throne at 18th and Grand, and pulls the strings that make his puppets in public office jump to do his bidding...
...Fence Me In. It has always been irresistibly tempting, Toynbee says, for a great or ancient body of human beings to think of itself as "The Chosen People." As late as the 18th Century, the emperors of China took for granted that they were the divine rulers of "all that is under Heaven"-despite the fact that their neighbor, the "Caesar" of Moscow, had assumed much the same title and traced his primacy back to both pagan Greece and the prophets of Israel. Londoners, cheering a march-past of Dominion troops at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, could...
Wordsworth was a romanticist, Addison wrote newspaper articles in 18th Century London, Newman was a Cardinal, and Donne did not always practice what he preached. These are some of the miscellaneous and disconnected facts about English literary history, which are about all most of the men who are taking English 1 will ever remember. This gigantic survey course, which attempts to cover all of English literature from Beowulf to Beerbohm, is required for all English concentrators and has been consistently criticized through the years as being exhausting, boring, and worthless...