Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original city plan to seize the land by eminent domain at $1 a year and use it for emergency housing for "a period not to exceed five years," was shelved in February, 1946 when the University presented a counter-proposal to put up permanent buildings and rent them to its own personnel...
Unlike most big U.S. cities, Kansas City also has an undisputed first citizen. He is Roy Allison Roberts, president and general manager of the Kansas City Star, a 265-lb. extravert who presides over his domain with the shrewd joviality of Falstaff and the hearty acumen of David Harum. He looks like the jolly personification of the sun at midday. He achieved and holds his zenith because of a deceptive appearance of innocence (his favorite description of himself: "I'm just a big, fat country boy"), almost inexhaustible energy, and a congenital talent for politicking...
Despite its distinctive character, extremist views of the Dunster domain are largely unjustified. The first Harvard edifice to greet the Charles River pilgrim from Boston is neither a hotbed of Marxists nor South American insurgents...
This will be the sixth Howard Johnson's in Cambridge, but is the first to invade the domain of the University. It will cover the two floors formerly occupied by the atmosphere-laden Rathskeller, and plans are being laid to include a cocktail...
Arrested also was the pink and plump 71-year-old Pauline, Princess of Württemberg, who sheltered them in their escape and established them in Bebenhausen, part of her former domain. When told that she could go out on bail, the cigar-smoking princess tickled her nurse and rocked with glee. The pair she sheltered will be turned over to U.S. authorities...