Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale Daily News told of the "defending champion Elis" opening their Eastern Intercollegiate League season by blanking Army, 9 to 0. Well, last May 14, coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity defeated Yale, 6 to 3, to win the Eastern League title and will open their defense of that crown against the same Army club on the Soldiers Field courts at 2 p.m. today...
...these general transitions assume that the situation in the Republic will remain generally as now--that the summer's conferences will bring at best a slow start toward German unification. It would be Adenauer's supreme triumph if he could crown his work by supervising as President the unification of Germany, but this prize will probably elude...
...seems to me that Kipling could never be more wrong than when he wrote "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." The meeting of the twain reaches its full fruition in the marriage of Michiko Shoda and Crown Prince Akihito, by Western standards a storybook romance in a storybook land...
...Japan's Toyopet Crown Custom, a four-cylinder, four-door family car with top speed of 80 m.p.h., and 33 miles per gal. Price...
...forever taking high-minded positions, forever tumbling into ludicrous misunderstandings. She suffers from tonsilitis, a nervous breakdown and the unwelcome attentions of matchmakers. Finally she sets out on a trip to Britain s surviving Crown Colony of Hong Kong, as secretary to a British woman M.P. (the lady may or may not be intended to resemble that noted Socialist amazon. Dr. Edith Summerskill, who took a trip to explore the wonders of Mao's China...