Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Priestley joined the attack on the U.S., Delegate Free slapped down a copy of UNESCO's constitution, reminded him that one of its first points was a free press. Priestley, red-faced with Yorkshire wrath, roared: "I do not believe that a representative of the United Kingdom, in matters of freedom of expression, needs to receive lessons. ... I assure the delegate that I can read the English language as well...
...runaway horses and saved the lives of bankers' daughters; the parsons' wives who were captured by Indians (and 200 years later, the English lady who was kidnaped by a sheik) ; the soldiers of fortune, the prisoners of Zenda, the daughters of the regiment, the little shepherds of Kingdom Come; here are the ministers who gave up their pulpits and went into the slums or who, out in the great west, or in the north woods, found peace and pipe-smoking contentment far from the falsities of society. The book has something of the fascination that might be found...
Minnesota's famed Professor Maurice B. Visscher and two colleagues had suspected for some time that moderate hunger, the usual state of most of the animal kingdom, might be a pretty healthy thing. In their mouse experiments, begun several years ago, they divided 144 newborn female mice into two groups. One group got all it could eat. The second group got two-thirds as many calories as the first (i.e., a full ration of proteins and vitamins, but less carbohydrates and fats). After the first 240 days, 26 of the underfed group of mice were then fed the full...
...Animal Kingdom. In Hastings, Neb., a coyote squeezed through an opening into C. A. Nelson's chicken pen, dined so well that he trapped himself. Off Folkestone, England, Saltwater Fisherman Charles Darby pulled in his line, unhooked...
Queen Wilhelmina was tired. For 49 years, ever since she was a girl of 18 (whom Playwright Edmond Rostand once described as "the little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips"), she had worn the crown-or the somewhat knockabout hats which she preferred...