Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prince, learn the principles of alchemy or snag a unicorn (and who has not?) The Sorcerer's Scrapbook (Random House; $6.95) is an ideal guidebook. Michael Berenstain's straightfaced account purports to be the Life and Times of Nicodemus Magnus, Doctor of Magic and Sorcerer to the Duke, told in his own words. But its true power and humor lie in its chiaroscuro Dark Ages illustrations of dungeons and dragons and a whimsical text that Merlin might have written on the wind...
Officials at Duke University said that they expect applications to fall off slightly this year, but Stanford, Cornell, and the University of California at San Francisco all expect increases for the coming year...
...King, Administrative Assistant for the admissions committee at Duke medical school, attributed the drop there exclusively to the general decrease in the nation's birth rate...
...wild and drunken noble, the Duke of Orleans, seized a torch and, shouting "Who are they? We'll soon find out!" lit the string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers...
...conference organized by Peter Lange, former associate professor of Government and now visiting associate professor of political science at Duke University; Paolo Ceccarelli, professor of planning at Venice University and MIT and Barry Bluestone, associate professor of economics at Boston College, deals with the "problems of particular cities tied to a single industry," Bluestone said yesterday...