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Word: alcuin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is roller-skating at Bal-a-Rue, with Benny Alcuin at the organ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Events | 2/10/1956 | See Source »

...earliest examples of good handwriting, says West, goes back to the days of Charlemagne, when Alcuin of York and his scribes turned out a neat and stubby cursive called Caroline minuscule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to Chancery | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...after year, the Fosters had talked it over and prayed about it. Their only child, Marjorie Jean, became a nun when she was 17. Last November stocky Donald Foster, 50, decided that the time had come. After asking his pastor's advice, he wrote to the Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, of St. John's Abbey at Collegeville, Minn., and got an airmail reply. With a doctor's certificate of good health, he would be accepted for a year of study at the monastery before entering the novitiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Decision | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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