Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor of Medieval History, was "invested" as Master of Kirkland House by President Pusey last night. Finding the term "installation' 'inadequate, Taylor said he felt that the ceremony was more like an investiture, especially with the long, flowing robes, the ever-present choir, and the attendance of a "baron," or college master, from Yale...
Died. Andrew Weir, Baron Inverforth, 90, British shipping (Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co., Ltd.) and communications tycoon, Minister of Munitions (1919-21); in London...
...internal combustion engine, it has revved up more horsepower in less time than any industrial engine in history. Patented in 1892 by Germany's Rudolf Diesel (who committed suicide in 1913 because he thought his engine had backfired), the first diesel was brought to the U.S. by Beer Baron Adolphus Busch for use in his St. Louis brewery...
...wrote Vicki: "I am prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background...
Died. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, 86, Armenian oil baron; of a heart attack; in Lisbon, Portugal (see BUSINESS...