Word: famous
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Facing the 90 man College Club, the New Haven Club led by Matthew Bartholemew, will render "Neath the Elms" and several other selections and will wind up with "Bright College Years," the song which ends with the famous anticlimax, "For God, for country, and for Yale...
Probably the best known of the University's distant possessions is famous not for its connection with Harvard, but because of the important events which transpired there in August, 1944. Dumbarton Oaks, scene of the conference at which the foreign secretaries of the United States, Great Britain and Russia determined the basic structure of the then unborn United Nations Organization, was given to Harvard by the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk...
...degree of this influence, a weak spot may be perceived in the plot. It is difficult to believe, for example, that a casual remark by one even so close to him as his wife could be the match which lit the legal conflagration that was one of Holmes most famous court decisions...
...most vigorous editorials in his support, the astronomer was pleased to find, came from "famous Virginia and Kentucky newspapers...
...Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, Kt., founder and administrator of the rich island-fortress of Singapore, an imperial hero of the stature of Robert Clive and Warren Hastings, the man who put a stop to East Indian slave dealing and for whom one of the world's most famous hotels would be named: the Raffles of Singapore...