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Word: crowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fide Hohenzollern in Texas, reported the States triumphantly, had established that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Copy | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Tokyo horse show, Crown Prince Akihito, 15, ate his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Striking with deadly force three times in the first period, the Eliot House football team mixed speed and deception with a liberal amount of luck yesterday afternoon and defeated Adams, 21-0, to clinch the 1949 House football crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Clinches Inter-House Football Crown With 21-0 Rout Over Adams | 11/9/1949 | See Source »

Most of the foreign diplomats still assigned to Nationalist China hurried from Canton to Hong Kong. The British crown colony alerted its 40,000-man garrison, waited nervously for the arrival of the new Red neighbors. Hong Kong authorities let it be known that they were eager to resume trade with and air service to Canton just as soon as its new Communist masters said the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Next: Chungking | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Patrick's Cathedral, Claire and Ivan were finally married in a swirl of cream satin, rolling organ music, popping flashbulbs and happy smiles. When that ceremony was done, the newlyweds trooped down to Manhattan's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, there were married all over again with double crowns and crown bearers. A brilliant reception at the Sherry-Netherland's Chanteclair Room added the final touch of ritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Over the Hurdle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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