Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycles, threadbare clothing, other poor possessions of the masses of poor Germans. In twelve months they took more than half of their zone's current industrial production as reparations. Americans took things too, but what they did was illegal and what they took was mostly luxury articles like Crown jewels, Mercedes-Benz cars, yachts. After a year most Germans felt under the British and Americans they could eventually work back to a normal life, and that under the Russians they could...
...While brooding in a public bath over a question posed to him by King Hiero of Syracuse-how to determine whether the King's crown was made of pure gold-Archimedes hit on the answer, jumped up, ran home naked, shouting "Eureka!" (I have found it.) The solution: by weighing the crown under water, Archimedes easily determined how much heavier it was than water, compared the result with the known specific gravity of pure gold. A floating body, he went on to show, displaces its own weight in water...
Married. Harry Sayles Conover, 34, crown prince of U.S. model peddlers, plugger of "the well-scrubbed American girl"; and Candy Jones (real name: Jessie Wilcox), 22, his well-scrubbed No. 1 blonde cover girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hamilton...
...crown fitted uneasily, and nine months after the U.S. had cried out against the Spanish man hunt in Cuba, the U.S. man hunt in the Philippines began. It was a drawn-out, costly, tragic struggle. Long before the islands were fully possessed, a free-the-Philippines campaign had begun...
Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old. As though his cold porridge had been piping hot, Promoter Mike Jacobs last week dished up another serving: another of his unbeatable Negro champions, Lightweight Bob Montgomery, defending his crown for the first time since 1944. This time Mike priced his ringside seats at a quiet $17. The fans stayed away and missed a real fight...