Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...
...Cousin Moulay. Behind him, Ben Moulay Arafa left decrees announcing his decision to leave "without in any way relinquishing our rights," and delegating "to our cousin Moulay Abdullah ben Moulay Abdel Hand the task of taking care of matters relative to the crown." The nationalists were not pleased. They knew little about Hand except that he is a stout, 50-year-old man working in a government office in Rabat. The government was obviously embarrassed, insisted that Hand's appointment would not "exclude" Faure's plan for a three-man Regency Council...
...northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown colony...
...Conidendrol, a compound that Crown Zellerbach gets from hemlock wastes, retards oxidation, is being tested for use in oils, foods, rubber and other substances...
...Crown Zellerbach. which hopes that research done in its new lab will turn up more Cinderellas in the forest, is not the only company trying to find new products from the more than 50% of a tree now wasted. Almost every month new products come out of the laboratories of lumber and paper companies. Among them...