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...recovery has not been spectacular. Eight of its last nine victims--B.C. (twice), St. Louis (twice), U Mass, Vermont, Providence and Colgate--have been weak teams, and the Terriers have not been blowing them off the ice. UNH, Harvard's conqueror in January, led B.U. 5-3 going into the third period on Friday night before falling...
...death penalty has been abolished before in Anglo-Saxon law. William the Conqueror banished it during his reign (1066-87), though he did not object to criminals being mutilated. But a few years later, Henry I (1100-35) permitted the ax and rope to return, and by the 16th century, offenders were also being drowned, drawn and quartered and boiled to death for crimes that ranged from cutting down a tree to stealing property worth more than a shilling. Traitors were hanged, then cut down while still alive, disemboweled so that their innards could be burned before their eyes, then...
...Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Complete text reproduced micro-graphically. 4,1 16 pages. Oxford, 2 vols. With magnifying glass, $75. The complete O.E.D. took more than 70 years to prepare and runs to 13 volumes because it gives sample quotations, going back farther than William the Conqueror, showing how words have changed color through the ages. Before becoming a game, Badminton served variously as the name of an English country estate and a cooling drink. As late as 1848, "snoop" meant "to appropriate or consume dainties in a clandestine manner." The word doom was a synonym...
...Black John the Conqueror" is the first cut on The Sun, Moon and Herbs, and it's indicative of how Dr. John has progressed since his previous releases. He uses horns, with a purpose, an alarum beckoning one to the arrival of Black John the Conqueror. Dr. John uses a prominent piano, with which he is able to change rhythms and direct the flow of the music. The imagery is fascinating... there's Dr. John banging away on the piano, while rolling words off his tongue in Dylanesque fashion. Then there are the voices, swaying in a trance-like state...
Black John the Conqueror is his name Black John the Conqueror, you're in his hand