Word: nu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sontag first sang these lines in 1854 at a gala premiere arranged by Mexico's flamboyant Dictator Santa Anna, Mexicans have sung them as their national anthem. But the man who composed the rather operatic music to which they are sung was practically unknown. His name was Jaime Nu...
Engaged. Prince Duarte Nuño, pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Marie Thérèse, sister-in-law of the Comte de Paris, pretender to the throne of France...
...satisfied to let the Westernization jell. He will never be dignified by such a statue as the one of Kamâl Atatürk which dom inates the Golden Horn, showing the great Kamal in a dinner jacket with cuffs on the trousers. Yet when Inb'nu. soon after taking office, had to decide whether to ally Turkey with Britain and France or whether to attempt Oriental isolation, he chose the European alliance...
Probably the earliest reference to whistling arrows credits their use to a Hsiung Nu, Mongolian prince, Maotun (200 B.C.), who used them to train his followers to loyalty. Whenever he shot his screamer at something, attendants were to follow up, shoot to kill. Those who hesitated were executed. Methodically working up from his favorite horse to his favorite concubine, he finally aimed his plaything at his father, went on to found the powerful Hsiung Nu dynasty...
...this good work was promptly undone last week by developments at University of Wisconsin. Into the office of the dean of men irately marched Madison's Police Chief William H. McCormick. Chief McCormick threatened to arrest the members of Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...