Word: fifthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty will have no choice but to take sides, if Parliament passes the new and further revised prayer book of the Church of England (the State Church). Should a bill approving that volume pass and be placed before the Fifth George, he must either sign or refuse to sign. In either case, the disappointed faction would be alienated from the Throne...
Doubtless there stirred in the Fifth George an acute consciousness that he owes his throne to the fact that the First George was a sturdy Protestant. He, the Elector of Hanover, achieved his legal right of succession to the British Throne under the Act of Settlement (1701), in which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof...
Leanor Fresnel Loree, the indefatigable, wished the road as part of his much discussed fifth eastern railroad system. In buying Lehigh Valley shares and securing proxies to vote at the Philadelphia meeting, Mr. Loree had back of him the fortunes of the Harriman family (he was a close associate of the late Edward Henry Harriman), and the even greater powers of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He himself did not attend the meeting, remaining at his home at West Orange...
...grown up to replace the College of 100 years ago. The first shows, University Hall, where the original plates were used: The second shows Massachusetts and Straus Halls. The third, Harvard Hall with Holden Chapel and Lionel Hall; the fourth, Harvard Hall with University and Lionel Halls; the fifth, the Freshman dormitories; the sixth, Mower Hall and Holden Chapel; the seventh, Widener Library; the eighth, Langdell Hall; the ninth, the Medical School; the tenth, the Library at the Business School; the eleventh, Memorial Hall, and the twelfth, Holden Chapel, with Hollis Hall and Stoughton Hall...
...author of the "Buddenbrocks", "The Magic Mountain", and other novels published in English translation, is the most distinguished author of living German novelists. his son Klaus, who is only 20 years old, has also written short stories and plays, but of these only one, "Kinder novelie," translated as "The Fifth Child", is as yet known to English readers...