Word: crown
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...several legal and economic books, among the best known of which are "The Evidence in the Case", 1914; "War and Humanity", 1916; "The Reckoning", 1918; and "The Passing of the New Freedom", 1920. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honor (France), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium), and Member of the Societe des Gens de Lettre (France...
William Henry Weston, D.M.D., Instructor in Crown and Bridge Prosthesis and Operative Dentistry...
...reasoning was usually so cogent and what he said so much to the point, that his attacks were feared as no others in his time. Hutchinson whom, as the Royal Governor of the province, 'Adams' activities had driven from office, referred to him in his report to the Crown as "of such an obstinate and inflexible disposition that no gift nor office would ever conciliate...
...answer comes from A. E. Crawley, an English authority. Tennis, it seems, was invented about 1200 when the usual arithmetical unit was sixty, because it was so conveniently divisible--this was before the use of decimals. It was always played for a stake, usually a crown (60 sous) per game of four strokes. Thus the winner of the first stroke was the recipient of 15 sous from his opponent. If he was a good player he won 30, then 45 (this number is still used in France to some extent) and finally sixty (our game...
...Annapolis team, winner of last year's intercollegiate meet, is favored to repeat his victory, but Captain Walker of Yale, the national junior champion, and Captain Bencoe of Columbia have proved their worth this season. Bencoe, especially, has stamped himself as the most likely candidate to snatch the crown from last year's champion...