Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything from key-handed to gallock-handed, kay-handed, korky-handed, wappay-handed or skiffy-handed. In Lancashire a flea is a flenn or a fleck, but the people of north Lincolnshire and north Yorkshire still say lops-a leftover from the Danish invasions of the 9th century. Such a word as udder can assume a bewildering number of forms-ewer, elder...
...your March 9th news article dealing with the nomination of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 for a position on the Board of Overseers, I believe I detect a slight bias. It appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment...
...border, snaking across an area seldom explored and inadequately mapped, has been in dispute ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...
...outcry, the government assigned an advisory Commission on Marriage and Family Laws (four men and three women) to chart out the dangerous ground between the feminists and the powerful polygamy lobby-Moslem mullahs who seek a theocratic state, and would, according to their critics, confine Pakistan to a 9th-century Arab feudal pattern...
...brief span of years in the 9th century, through a combination of armed might and wisdom, the Prankish King Charlemagne succeeded in establishing a measure of unity in war-torn Europe. Last week, 1,142 years after Charlemagne's burial in Aix la-Chapelle (the German city of Aachen), Sir Winston Churchill journeyed to Aachen to accept its Charlemagne Prize* for his own efforts to promote European understanding...