Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states that all foreign-language posters and signs must include-in bigger type-a Spanish translation. Offenders are subject to a fine of $2.50 a day per sign. To businessmen who have festooned Panama with such slogans as Royal Crown Cola's "Best by Taste-Test," strict enforcement could be a headache. But most Panamanians seemed unimpressed. Snorted a reporter for one of Panama's newspapers (over which the commission has no control): "We common people will still ask for sanwiches, not emparedados, when we go to lonch...
...named for British Banker Henry Thomas Hope, who bought it in 1830 when it turned up in England after mysteriously disappearing from the French crown jewels...
...edge of the playing surface. The coach door opened and his Honor the Acting Governor William Addis struggled out and mounted the stands to his official box. The crowd was hushed as the Governor spoke. "I now open Rugby Week," he said. The crowd thought briefly of the half crown admission price and then cheered good naturedly. Two teams surged onto the turf. Rugby Week in Bermuda had indeed begun, and for pomp and parties, there is nothing quite like...
Harvard University was the scene the other night of a debate on the question, "Resolved, that the American Revolution was a mistake." A couple of young men from Cambridge University, England, argued that it would have been better all around if America had remained under the British crown. A couple of Harvard students in reply insisted that July 4 was worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call...
...Harvard-Yale tussle was scheduled to meet Princeton Saturday. However, the Thursday game resulted in a 3-3 deadlock, making it necessary for both the Crimson and the Elis to play Princeton. A Harvard victory over the Tigers would have meant a tie with Yale for the Big Three crown; a Tiger win leaves the title to Yale. The decisive score was unavailable at 2 a.m. today...