Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whisky is one of the few improvements on nature which the vodka-drinking Russians forgot to invent. It came, the Russians say, from medieval Ireland, where "it was known as uskvebak, which means 'water of life.' "
If Hollis is a subversive influence in the Yard, it is apparently a lasting one, for its solid box-like architecture makes it almost indestructible. Together with Stoughton it was the last dormitory built with a "medieval type" chamber-and-study-room arrangement that made for large apartments.
Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached...
Now, at the close of her academic career--for she must retire this June--Helen Cam surveys a scholarly past filled with the sense of her own growth. Almost half a century ago she backed away from humdrum Victorianism into a medieval world. "I was just a regular romantic," she...
The course of her study has also led to a small armory of academic honors. She is a member of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Society of America. These honors in someone else might...