Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Crown Prosecutor Arthur McClellan when the boys came to trial: "I think these two unfortunate boys [both lacked normal home life] have been strongly influenced by what they have been reading." Judge Charles Kitchen committed the 13-year-old to the Provincial Industrial School for Boys at Port Coquitlam, B.C.; the younger he turned over to the Child Welfare Superintendent at Vancouver. Said Judge Kitchen: "I agree as to the influence of the literature these boys have been subjected to ... A concerted effort should be made to see that this worse, than rubbish is abolished in some...
Freddie Mills is a British boxer, one of the best. A light heavyweight, he had just kayoed Champ Johnny Ralph to win South Africa's heavyweight crown...
...other House-College football games, the Bulldogs emerged victorious, though often over stiff opposition. Yale won the touch football crown as Silliman swamped Kirkland...
With the same passing attack that won them the American League crown during the regular season, Thayer Middle's smooth-working touch football team captured the Yard championship by rolling over the National League's leading Matthews North sextet, 18 to 0, at Soldiers Field...
Last week, as the birth of Princess Elizabeth's baby drew near, the old custom was smacked down before it even had a chance to raise its head. "The attendance of a minister of the crown at a birth in the royal family," said Buckingham Palace in a succinct announcement, "is not a statutory requirement ... It is merely the survival of an archaic custom, and the King feels it is unnecessary to continue [the] practice...