Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrubbed & Sterilized. But throughout the Commonwealth, Elizabeth's baby (whose name will not be decided upon until just before his baptism) was welcomed with warmth and affection rather than official pomp and circumstance...
...tribute unique in British history, Franklin Roosevelt had become the first head of a foreign state whose name joined those of Britain's illustrious dead of seven centuries. * The tablet in the abbey is considered even more of a tribute than the statue of Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square visited by hundreds of Britons every...
According to Dr. Leland Cunningham, comet expert of the University of California, "McGann-Paraskevopoulos" (official name: 1948-L) is now moving away from the sun, having passed closest to it on Oct. 27. It is about 50 million miles from the earth and will not come any nearer. Its tail is more than 15° long, 30 times the breadth of the full moon, and its head is estimated to be of the second magnitude in brightness (this is brighter than all except 41 stars in the sky). The comet will fade slowly, but it will appear a little earlier...
...last week, as it has for the past six weeks, Private Lives was packing the Plymouth Theater with as many standees as the New York Fire Department will allow. What the customers were crowding to see was not so much a play as a remarkable personality with a remarkable name: Tallulah Bankhead...
This much can be said. He gave Harvard football players a reason for winning--not for the name of Harvard (that had been tried by his predecessor), not for personal glory (he didn't expect to win enough games to make anyone an All-American), but for their coach, Art Valpey