Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrate the event, the Kennedy Administration joined New York's political elite in paying lavish tribute. The occasion was a $12.50-a-plate testimonial dinner sponsored by a "Committee of One Thousand" (honorary chairman: Kennedy's protocol chief, Angier Biddle Duke) and the congregation...
...potted by the Duke...
Garbed like an Eskimo and puffing on a cigarette, the Duchess of Kent, 54, anxiously watched the British army ski championships at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Reason for her visible dismay was the performance of the team captain of the Royal Scots Greys-her son, the Duke of Kent, 25. The duke fell twice in the downhill, each time losing a ski, was disqualified in the slalom. Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience...
...have raised $80 million, put up 300 new college buildings, and opened five new campuses from North Carolina to Alaska. The empire under varying degrees of Methodist control has 205,500 students in 136 schools, including 77 colleges, 21 junior colleges, 12 seminaries and 8 universities (American, Boston, Denver, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Southern Methodist, Syracuse...
...Methodists are now giving renewed attention to the kind of learning that Duke sums up in its motto, Eruditio et Religio. They feel that "church-owned colleges should be frankly conducted as instrumentalities of the church." The goal is a strong religious director for every campus, Christian-hued research by faculties, and-because the church expects its colleges to replace its missionaries abroad-many more foreign students. Says John Gross: "If Moscow's Friendship University is the world center for the study of Communism, then the centers for the study of the Judeo-Christian West should be the church...