Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl of Birkenhead...
...wing to prevent a cold-clogged oil tank from bursting, the joint feat of changing three 900-lb. Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept him on a milk diet for weeks, was credited with the most miles flown. Reber described the foggy flying weather as "dirtiest ever...
...away, the Government of India is now deliberating the matter. If it decides against the Begum's favorite, she will at once appeal to the Secretary of State for India in Council, the Earl of Birkenhead. Thankfully British statesmen learned that she had brought her own curry cook, opining that had she not done so they might have been harder put to provide her with orthodox viands than to unravel the legal knot of her succession...
...This learned body, which receives from Parliament a yearly subvention of '2,000 pounds for the promotion of research," says the Bulletin, "was established in 1902, with Lord Rosebery, W. E. H. Lecky, and James Bryce--as he then was--among its incorporators. The Earl of Balfour, is now its president. Its membership is made up of 150 British Fellows and about 40 Corresponding Fellows of other nationalities...
...while doing research work in one of these that he made a find of considerable historic interest. In the private gallery of the Earl of Shaftesbury he found the portrait of a group of 24 English philanthropists, including James Oglethorpe, all founders and trustees of the state of Georgia. The painting represents an audience given Chief Toms Chiki and his Yanracraw Indians in London, July 3, 1734, for the purpose of renewing a treaty of peace and good will...