Word: genera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotel suite at London's Grosveno House last week, Sir Ibrahim, the 85-year old Sultan of Johore, died of "genera debility." He had passed his last years quietly, watching TV. going to the theater, enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Sultana Marcella, and his adored eight-year-old daughter, Princess Meriam. "He was very rich, very brave and very, very fond of Britain," said the Daily Express, with an imperial sigh for the good old days. Men on three continents traded reminiscences about the strapping Sultan's prowess in love, tiger hunting and polo, told...
...World was William, a major genera! of Oliver Cromwell's England and one oi the 63 judges who condemned King Charles I to death. After the Restoration he fled to the American wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house...
Finally, the department has traditionally avoided specialized training by refusing to give practical music instruction, beyond its Basic Piano requirement for all concentrators. This has began in keeping with the University's genera policy of the separation of liberal arts an professional training, but the department is more explicit to its position. "We strongly favor the student's following up his particular musical talent outside of his curriculum; but the University is not a conservatory, and does not offer his training," stated that Arthur T. Meritt, Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music. "We feel that we have time only...
Philip H. Rhinelander '29, executive secretary of the committee on Genera Education, said Thursday that the Council had misjudged the facts to make the program seem unsuccessful...
...fast correction from the Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: MacArthur had made it clear, even when urging an expanded attack on the Chinese, that "we should first give the enemy the. opportunity to sit down at a conference table in an honest effort to avoid further bloodshed . . ." The genera! "has consistently refrained" from even discussing the cease-fire negotiations, said Whitney...