Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability. It had never occurred to the British that little men in shorts and gym shoes could actually filter through Malayan jungles. Japanese forces had apparently made contact all the way across the peninsula: even across the central mountain-spine. The middle jungles had previously been the domain of the dwarfish Sakai, a hairy, blow-gunning people who travelers say are so primitive that they have digits only up to two and count: one, two, many, many-many, many-many-many. The Japanese bribed savages to lead them through their jungle paths...
Surprising as this British move seems today, the passage of such a law would have seemed even more surprising to men of earlier generations-for exactly opposite reasons. For centuries Christianity and education went hand in hand. Throughout the Middle Ages education was so exclusively the domain of the church that any prisoner who could read was recognized as a cleric (clerk) and could get his case transferred to the more lenient ecclesiastical courts. Every great university in Britain and the U.S. was founded with strong religious motives, largely to educate ministers. And until the last century the idea...
...stew, Tommy Hart last week found time to play a bit of golf, take a few members of his staff to the movies. Too old a sea dog to bark before biting, he still had a twinkle in his weather eye as he kept it cocked on his nautical domain. The beat he patrols is large - from Wake west to China - but the Admiral knows it like the back of his hand...
...permissible to reproduce (and perform) a musical score provided it is in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright...
Hampton's reprints are all in the public domain. Because Russia, like the U.S., is not a member of the Berne copyright convention, and has no copyright treaty with the U.S., Soviet Composer Serge Prokofieff is on the Hampton list. Hampton sells his Classical Symphony for $17.25. Rumanian Georges Enesco's early works were for some reason never copyrighted; Hampton sells his Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 for $20 (the European edition costs...