Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cathedral," says the Met's Arms and Armor Curator Stephen V. Grancsay. But the few suits that have survived show that by the mid-15th century, armorers had achieved near perfection in their art. Making suits of as many as 120 separate pieces, they could completely sheathe a knight in skillfully molded armor, elegant in its burnished, plain surfaces, and so meticulously fitted that it followed the play of each muscle, the hinging of each joint. Viewed simply as objects of beauty, the massive helms are symbolic of the knight's dauntless courage, as the mailed fist...
...aristocracy viewed the events from the Charles River equivalent of a royal yacht. Passing from deck to deck amidst the ruins of a decayed knight-errantry, they exhorted and condemned at socially acceptable occasions...
David H. Davis 2G won the George Arthur Knight prize and income from the fund for his string quartet. Frederic A. Rzewski '58 received honorable mention in the competition...
...Bloemfontein effect in that he took up radio astronomy seriously when the University gave up the South African installation. He has since attained world stature in the field, and is one of the key planners of the projected National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Ewen, through his firm, the Ewen-Knight Corporation, has developed the electronic apparatus of the telescopes...
...Winston Churchill shows himself more garrulous by 29 words than in the original note in which the young officer of the IVth (Queen's Own) Hussars was moved to submit the book "with considerable trepidation to the judgement or clemency of the public.'' The aged Knight of the Garter adds for the current edition: "The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point...