Word: marquisate
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¶ The correspondent doing the best all-around job, "measured in terms of reliability, fairness, ability to analyze the news": Scripps-Howard's scholarly, Pulitzer-Prizeman Thomas L. Stokes, with 25 votes.* Crowding Stokes, with 23 votes: United Feature's New-Dealish Marquis Childs.
Janie's father (Edward Arnold), who publishes the town paper, writes a blast about youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out...
Then she slipped quietly back to her attic to read some more about Joan. The Maid, Simone noted, had not been put to death by the English invaders, but by 15th-Century French quislings. Soon Si mone found herself in the same fix. A haughty Marquis, the town's...
In 1910, for example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No...
*James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, Scottish Covenanter who later supported the Stuarts and was hanged by order of the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh in 1650.