Word: invalids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University favors the broad interpretation, a member of its law firm said, because such a decision means that Harvard can build as high as it wishes on any of its own land. The decision makes other physical restrictions equally invalid, Lewis said, and prevents Cambridge from establishing zoning laws which require parking facilities or sidewalk area next to University buildings...
...Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates financing agent, and 2) a Budget Bureau consultant on the contract. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell went on to rule that Dixon-Yates investors were not even entitled to payment for costs already incurred, because Wen-zell's dual role made the contract invalid. The Dixon-Yates utility firms went to court to recover the costs...
...last 18 months, Ethel Barrymore was virtually an invalid in her home in Beverly Hills, suffering from arthritis and heart disease. Her brothers had long since made their exits, John in 1942, Lionel in 1954. Still she remained the pleasantly abrupt commentator who once told an audience of Philadelphia clubwomen that they were moronic, who thought television was hell (although she had tried that, too). She remained an avid boxing and baseball fan ("I might have liked football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged...
...answers: Elizabeth was illegitimate in the sense that her father, Henry VIII, had his marriage with her mother, Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good...
...Tufts. Both squads lost to the Eagles by 14 points, but whereas Brandeis downed Tufts. 72 to 68, the Crimson won, 60 to 54. Judging then by comparative scores--a consistently inaccurate method anyway--the two teams are so evenly matched that any prediction on this basis would be invalid...