Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday's regatta opening, clerk of course Bill Dowd found it necessary to change the method of picking finalists when it became evident that the entries in a scheduled third heat had dropped out. Two heats were rowed and the top men in each--instead of only the winner--qualified for the final...
Judge Ford conferred briefly with the court clerk. Then he fined Chicago-born, snobbish Douglas Chandler $10,000 and sentenced him to life imprisonment...
Forty-three oarsmen of the single vessel variety have entered the six-class competition for the H.A.A. summer sculling medals, Bill Dowd, clerk of course, disclosed last night, in announcing next week's schedule of trial heats and finals immediately after the entry deadline of 6 o'clock yesterday...
Dowd will doff his clerk-of-course appellation to challenge Day on the strength of his runner-up position last summer in a close meeting with Day as a lightweight oarsman...
...Ceremony. But there was still time left for the Lords to perform a fateful function. In their chamber, the Royal Assent was solemnly given to the Indian Independence Bill. In the presence of five royal commissioners (in cocked hats and scarlet robes with ermine and sable-edged capes), the clerk of the Parliament pronounced: "Le Roy Le veutl" (the king wills it). With these words, Britain had abandoned the greatest single base of her power. The subcontinent which Robert Clive's military mastery and Benjamin Disraeli's diplomatic craft had made the cornerstone of empire was cut loose...