Word: gloriously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind the history of the black man in America was the sketchier but far more glorious history in Africa, "when we were kings...
Harvard's hard-luck cross-country team evened its season record in one glorious swoop by clobbering Pennsyivants, 17-39, and Columbia, 22-39, in a triangular meet yesterday afternoon at New York's Van Cortlandt Park...
...Divinity School itself, Pusey praised its "glorious record of achievement" and noted in reviewing the School's history that the traditional problem of whether the School should concentrate on scholarship or professional preparation has been resolved so that both are now adequately provided
...Venice's once-grand traditions, none seemed destined for a more in glorious end than painting. Not that good painters did not exist. Canaletto and the Guardi brothers turned out thousands of panoramic Venetian views whose impeccable architecture and exquisite plays of light have since delighted generations, while Pietro Longhi mastered a mellow irony to reveal the domestic texture of Venetian life. But it remained for an extraordinarily forceful young artist named Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to ascend that decaying stage and transform shimmer and shadow into one last dramatic moment for Venetian painting...
...Boers' glorious freedom ended in 1814, when the Dutch ceded the Cape Colony to Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The British brought in property laws, courts, and worst of all, government. Shocked at the treatment of the natives, London ordered all slaves freed, proclaimed Coloreds, Hottentots, and even Bushmen equal...