Word: illustriouses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite these two absences, and that of Denmark's illustrious Atomist Niels Bohr, Harvard was scarcely more proud last week of its 300 years than of the distinguished company it had gathered to help celebrate that milestone. Summoned to the two-week Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences were...
¶"What are you doing tomorrow, Bernard?" asked a friend recently of Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of Norfolk, the Premier Duke and Earl Marshal and Great Steward and Chief Butler of England, whose illustrious family have the hereditary duty of arranging the King's Coronation.
ISAIAH BOWMAN '05: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Baltimore, Maryland, President of Johns Hopkins University. "A distinguished geographer who maps with a bold and steady hand the future of an illustrious university."
In the words of their spokesman, "the League plans to follow in the footsteps of such illustrious predecessors as the Anti-Saloon League, American Legion, and other glorious pressure groups."
It was eight years before Cubans got sufficiently agitated to chase Tyrant Gerardo Machado off their beautiful island (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). It was nearly two and a half years more before they calmed down sufficiently to hold a regular Presidential election to replace him (TIME, Jan. 20 et ante...