Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threw away his boxing gloves and bought a black derby. For the next 50 years, at a saucy angle, the derby accompanied Jimmy Johnston and his winged gab through boxing's shady domain. Wearing neat dark suits, and never smoking nor touching whiskey, he hung out mostly at Lindy's, and talked a kind of gay illiteracy straight out of Damon Runyon...
...Center, rejected by the Council but deserving of further discussion, would be the inclusion of a lounge suitable for entertaining guests throughout the evening. An attractively furnished room containing a refreshment counter would add greatly to the building's popularity without in any way encroaching upon the social domain of the Houses. Little more can be said about the Council's recommendation: the proposed Center speaks for itself. As a memorial, it would be highly fitting in an age devoted to positive work and play; and as a badly needed addition to the University, it would complement Harvard's academic...
...Questions of Man. Most puzzling for the Americans were Marshall Island politics. Juda and other Paramount Chiefs hold power through heredity on the maternal side. They alone own the land. They alone judge crimes (a little adultery, an occasional assault-&-battery). They are entitled to almost half their domain's annual crop of coconuts, which means half their people's income...
...treaty, simply to "assign" the world capital area to UNO-without ceding the territory or relinquishing sovereignty over it. UNO could buy up the property directly from its owners (as the State Department wistfully hoped it would), or ask the Government to seize it by right of eminent domain...
John J. Foley appeared as the staunchest defender of the University's plan to build its own permanent homes. "Why take the land by eminent domain or rent it," he said "if Harvard will build better houses than we could, and if we shall also be able to collect taxes from their project...