Word: domain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Gaul, the domain of Harvard is divided into three parts. In the center is the Yard, birthplace of Harvard, which now contains Freshman dormitories and College classrooms. To the north, across Cambridge Street, stretches the empire of the graduate schools and laboratories. On the south side of Massachusetts Avenue are the lairs of upperclassmen, reaching down to the Charles River, across which stand the Business School and Stadium...
...August 21, 1939, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, returned by plane to London, fresh from a month's vacation with his wife and nine children spent at an estate famous for its roses, Domain de Ranguin, five miles from Cannes, on the French Riviera. In the two weeks that followed, the red-faced, red-haired Boston Irishman went many times in the footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only...
...world-girdling domain of palm & pine upon which the sun never sets and in which the people call themselves Bahamians or Rhodesians, New Zealanders or Canadians, but are at heart Englishmen first, last and always, is properly and politely called the British Commonwealth of Nations. In wartime, it is the British Empire. No test applied to its unity could be more certain of positive reaction than the test of Hitlerism: autarchic despotism v. the birthright of freeborn Britons. The British Empire's far-flung parts approached that test last week in different ways. Alphabetically...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $2000,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and her giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Bleemfentein, South Africa, lies in the bands of seven...
...flooded area took refuge, vowing to defend their holdings against the march of unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this bill and the Santee-Cooper project, to cost...