Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of 1925 a young Englishman named Charles Dalrymple Belgrave found himself in a quandary as old as the state of matrimony. Home on leave from a colonial service job in Tanganyika, Belgrave had become smitten with the Mayfair-bred daughter of a prosperous knight, and knew he could not support her on his colonial service pay. He began to read the "Personals" column of the London Times and was intrigued by this...
Newspapers also needed bigger staffs to meet their readers' need for advance guidance on TV's vast convention operations. Edwin A. Lahey, Washington bureau chief of the Knight papers, sold his editors on doing a daily piece on what TV would show that evening. "It's like putting a map in a Saturday paper to help you take a Sunday drive," he explained...
...Meharry Medical College (both Negro schools), complained Dean Robert S. Jason of Howard's School of Medicine. ¶ The first report on a research project financed in part by the Tobacco Industry Research Committee (TIME, Nov. 15, 1954) was published by Providence Drs. Philip Cooper and James B. Knight Jr., and it had nothing to do with cigarettes and cancer. It indicated that while individual duodenal ulcer patients react differently to smoking, there is no consistent difference between smokers and non-smokers in the volume and acidity of stomach secretions...
Basil Walters, ruddy, snow-topped executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, was chomping his cigar in his Chicago Daily News office one morning last May when a visiting politician handed him a king-size story to bite on. The politician's tip: Illinois State Auditor Orville E. (for Enoch) Hodge's office was in deep financial trouble. The tip was surprising, since Hodge, often mentioned as a Republican candidate for Illinois' governor in 1960, is a popular official who has created the impression that he has a private fortune to support his expensive tastes, e.g., monogrammed...
...knighthood came to full flower, the well-equipped knight needed as many as six suits to fulfill his ceremonial and battle functions. His armorers replaced the earlier painted decorations by designs etched with acid, a technique used on armor long before it became an artist's medium. On his jousting armor, they added elaborate horned devices and feathered plumes, cushioning his stallion with heavy velvet "peytrels," i.e., chest protectors, and bedecking his lances with ribbons...