Word: englands
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Legend has it that after he was forced to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215, King John of England threw himself on the floor in a rage, crawling around and biting on a stick like a dog. There were good reasons for such a show of temper. The document imposed on him by rebellious barons and bishops in a meadow called Runnymede was one of the first comprehensive written attempts to limit the powers of the English King and to set forth the rights of his subjects. Lord Bryce, the historian, has described it as "the starting point...
...years or have been superseded by new laws. Among them is one that ordered the removal of all weirs (dams) from the Thames and other rivers, and a second that restricts the King's right to seize the lands of debtors. The provision assuring that "the Church of England shall be free" will be eliminated because that institution, which was then responsible to Rome, long ago became a state, or "established" church...
...capital needed to finance U.S. business expansion. Some bond dealers describe trading conditions as the most disorderly in memory. So many banks are unloading their bond holdings to raise money for loans that underwriters are being forced to offer "shock prices" to sell new issues at all. Southern New England Telephone Co. last week paid 7.723% interest-the highest for any unit of A.T. & T. since 1921-to bring out $65 million in debentures...
...over styles, will find many familiar Lowell mannerisms. Among them: the dazzling fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each eye. The left Lowell eye may be modishly on the topical-Che Guevara...
Memories of warmer days have nursed many of us through February nights in New England. But we can never go home again...