Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boasted they were opening a school a day. But the roads mostly went to French farms or French factories, the schools were chiefly for French children. Even now, only one in five Moroccan children goes to school; and in the 44 years of the protectorate, only an average of eleven Moroccans a year completed a pre-university education...
Morocco has been French only since 1912. Before that, for eleven centuries, it had been a free and sovereign state since the time when a dissident leader of the all-conquering Arabs declared his independence of faraway Baghdad in the 8th century. For centuries, rulers alternated between Arab dynasties and the indigenous Berbers. The empire waxed and waned but was never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan...
During 1956, Protestants converted 475 Catholics in Rome. This figure sounds small, but, as the Vatican report points out, it is roughly eleven times the number of Italian Protestants in Rome converted to Catholicism. Warned the report: "Agents of this propaganda don't present themselves as Protestants. They call themselves Christians . . . they use subtle and devious tactics. They insinuate doubts about principles of the True Faith . . . finally they initiate Protestant rites...
...Louis was going to steal their strategy, they might as well try the one trick that had always worked for the Hawks. With their San Francisco import, big Bill Russell, grabbing every rebound in reach, the Celtics moved in front. There they stayed. For the first time in eleven years, the Boston Celtics won the world series of basketball, and they won St. Louis style...
...Service was originally sponsored last spring by Andover, Choate, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Taft, Loomis, and St. Paul's which with eleven other schools operated the Service on a trial basis this year. It now includes thirty schools and more are expected after the official announcement...