Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...championship was the crew's third in the last seven years and made the Crimson the favorite in this weekend's races for the New England Intercollegiate Championships. The meet will be co-hosted by Harvard and Tufts, and the winner of the competition will travel to Seattle for the North American Intercollegiate Title...
KRAFT MUSIC HALL&$151;WITH PETER COOK AND DUDLEY MOORE FROM LONDON (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Featuring two of the Beyond the Fringe zanies and their guests, Anne Bancroft and Mel Torme, in the first of two specials produced in England...
...made-in-America company might bring more rhythmic pizazz to Calendar; none but the Royal could evoke the special virtues of Enigma Variations. Based on the orchestral score by Sir Edward Elgar, the work is a nostalgic visualization of a half-remembered spirit and place: green and pleasant England at the end of Victoria's reign. Before a stunning set by Julia Trevelyan Oman that at once suggests the languor of an autumnal afternoon and the oaken mellowness of a Worcestershire estate, the Royal's dancers bring to life the Malvern Circle of friends whom Elgar referred...
...religious, psychological and historic conditions existing at the time. Like other historians, he points out that the Salem trials were anything but unique. In the 17th century people not only still believed in witchcraft but passionately persecuted witches. There were witch burnings in Scotland and hangings in England, and on the Continent incomplete records tell of the burning of 5,000 witches in the province of Alsace alone. The learned believed in witchcraft as strongly as the ignorant; Hansen notes that the British chemist Robert Boyle, who discovered the law of gas pressures that bears his name, once proposed that...
...Warren picked up three assists against Governor Dummer, always one of the best prep school teams in New England...