Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keyed bugle, ancestor of the tuba...
...football players hand in their cleats and hockey players draw on their skates, Harvard's rugger players are taking a short rest between seasons. The popularity at football's ancestor is on the rise again as the Harvard Rugby Club prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary this spring. The only squad at Harvard with freshmen, upperclassmen, and graduate students combined on one team, the rugby men will resume practice in February at Briggs Cage, in preparation for a ten game spring schedule...
...long, heavy tail. Lewis does not know yet whether it had hair or scales, whether it laid eggs or bore its young alive, or how it made its living. When he has completed his work, he hopes to know all these things about man's low but aspiring ancestor...
What then limits the corporation? Berle goes back to William the Conqueror's ancestor Duke Rollo, who, along with his successors in Normandy and England, was about as absolute a wielder of power as political history knows. Yet Rollo, says legend, was impelled to proclaim that any subject who felt aggrieved could appeal to him by crying "Ha Rollo." This appeal to "the conscience of the King" became the foundation of liberties as the Western world knows them...
There have been Maybanks in South Carolina since 1670. Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days. One ancestor, William Rhett, served as Vice Admiral of the colony, cleared the Carolina coast of pirates and hanged Gentleman Freebooter Stede Bonnet at Charleston in 1719. Another ancestor was the Landgrave Thomas Smith, who took his title from the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which Philosopher John Locke wrote when he was secretary to the lords proprietors. Still another ancestor was fiery U.S. Senator R. Barnwell Rhett, "the father of secession," who refused, out of respect...