Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before coming to the University in 1939, Fuller taught at Oregon, Illinois, and Duke, and in 1935 received the Phillips award from the American Philosophical Society for his essay on "American Legal Realism...
...Minutest. Wedgwood spent four years figuring out how to reproduce a Roman vase in the Duke of Portland's collection, and when Sir Joshua Reynolds pronounced his copy "a correct and faithful imitation both in the general effect and in the most minutest details of the parts," he felt that the time had been well spent...
...Mallory and A. C. Irvine, climbed up to 27,000 ft. and pitched camp. There they left their three porters and pushed upward into the mists. Whether they reached the top will probably never be known; they were never seen again. In 1933, the Marquess of Clydesdale (now the Duke of Hamilton) made the first flight over the mountain...
...should be opened for business-and publicity. To 300 of the biggest wigs he could find, he sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...
Drums by the Duke. Nevertheless, a good on-the-house time was had by nearly all. The guests roamed over the hotel's 6,500 manicured acres, rode over its 200 miles of bridle paths, played golf on its three courses, lounged in rooms that will cost paying customers from $17 to $65 a day. The windup was a glittering ball in the chandelier-hung ballroom. At its height, the Duke of Windsor, a good amateur hand at the drums, joined Meyer Davis's band and beat the skins (How Are Things in Glocca Morra...