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Word: crowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steps of the Indoor Athletic Building, Barbara Sorenson, Radcliffe '51, received a gilt crown from President Charles MacWhorter of the club as a token of her winning the title of "HYRC Beauty Queen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Politicos Finish Campaign With Flourish | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

Twelve Radcliffe girls will take to their dinghies today in an effort to win the coveted Charles River Yachting crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailing, Sailing . . . | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...Westernized nation, stood for a bewildering new fact: the vast majority of the people of the British Dominions do not speak English, have only partial contact with British institutions and are not deeply touched by what Winston Churchill has called "unity within the mysterious circle of the Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH COMMONWEALTH: Loose Connection | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...conference got under way in a blaze of imperialist hope & glory. Leopold Amery, former Secretary of State for India, while supporting economic cooperation in Europe, denounced the idea of a European federation. "We can never subject our loyalty to Crown and Empire to some outside authority." The conference came out against freer trade, and for the Empire preference system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Light of Llandudno | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Crown Prince Olav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Beautiful People | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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