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Word: nephew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place, his wife, Queen Fatima, 40, had given him no son and heir. Then too, the entire royal family was jealous of the trust the old King put in his chief adviser, Ibrahim el-Shalhi, who wanted to marry the King off to his own daughter. Last fall a nephew of the Queen shot the adviser dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Family Troubles | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...marking Harvard milestones in this week's Commencement festivities. CHARLES E. MASON (center), secretary of the Class of 1905, is celebrating his 50th Reunion. His son, CHARLES E. MASON, Jr. (right), is a member of the 25th Reunion Class. And PETER MASON GUNDERSON, grandson of Mr. Mason, Sr. and nephew of Mr. Mason, Jr. is a senior...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: 1930's Final College Years: Talkies, Socialism, Prohibition | 6/14/1955 | See Source »

...Harvard officers help?" she asked hastily. "During the war, my nephew came home and parked his car in front of the curb by our boarding hall and when he came out the car was gone. A University officer told him it had been towed away. I asked the Cambridge police and they said that was entirely illegal...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: The Citizens Meet | 5/4/1955 | See Source »

...resolute exile named Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Bonaparte, crossed the Rhine into Strasbourg one day in 1836 and waved one of his uncle's aigles (eagle standards) at the French garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nepotism | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...almonds from the butcher shop ("That's Spain. One buys bonbons at the butcher's," commented Picasso), a tissue paper filled with cotton seeds ("Just what we need here!"). Picasso glanced eagerly at the family photographs, turned the occasion into an old home week with his comments: Nephew Jaime-"He looks just like the Count of Paris"; Dona Lola-"She resembles a bullfighter's mother or a Roman empress"; their apartment-"Why, they live better than I do!"* "Good! Good!" Glancing at L'Oeil's pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Uncle Pablo | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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