Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Observatory within the next two years, it was announced today by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory. The contract for this giant research instrument has just been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh, Pa., that has made many large telescopes, including the 72-inch reflector at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C., the world's second largest...
...fully as any other period in his life. The tempo and the style are swift, an artistic device to convey the energy of the subject. It is successful too in suggesting the development of Napoleon's plans with the progress of his achievements. No premature dreams of world dominion are attributed to the Artillery officer when he is still intriguing unsuccessfully for mastery of Corsica...
...question is purely political. There are two systems of law in Mexico. One is for all the people on every matter. The other is for foreigners in the oil business. According to old Mexican law dominion over the subsoil would put oil business in governmental control. The prevailing law now gives the owner the right to all oil and coal. The Mexican government is reactionary in its attempt to get back to the old theory of dominion over the subsoil."C. G. T. LUNDELL...
...system which now denies to them the right of accepting fitting honors from His Majesty the King. . . . While Canadian politicians should unquestionably still be barred from accepting such honors, there are many other Canadians who deserve and should receive what only the Sovereign can bestow. . . . I hope that the Dominion Government will soon withdraw its resolution of some years ago against the granting of patents of nobility to Canadians...
Since Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, staunch Liberal, hearty democrat, now guides the helm of the Dominion Government, there is no chance that it will be put over on such a Tory tack as that proposed by Premier Ferguson. Remained, however, for some U. S. citizens the glamorous thought that some day they may be able to obtain in Canada that other commodity denied to U. S. citizens, a peerage...