Word: overlording
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...years,- was the second offshoot of Louis Pasteur's original Institute in Paris. The first was at Saigon. The Tunis vintners knew of Pasteur's work only that he was able to keep beer from spoiling and silkworms from dying. They demanded that the French Government, their overlord, send them men to prevent their wine turning sour. The French established the Tunis Pasteur Institute (1893), where the scientists quickly learned what spoiled Tunis wine. Then they turned, as Pasteur had turned, to discovering the causes, cures and preventions of human and animal diseases...
...Peterson scandal-he was supposed to have paid his political overlord some $2,000-soon evaporated. Not to malign a dead man, it seemed sufficient to say that Postmaster Peterson's bankruptcy was his own fault and not political. But there were other cases...
...exhausted by interminable footless fighting, harried by powerful enemies and treacherous vassals, resolves to sacrifice his questionable independence for peace and pleasure in the palace of some mightier overlord. He chooses Ung Khan as his most likely protector, agrees to surrender two thirds of his revenue, and to live at the court of Caracorom with 2,000 fighting men ready for emergencies. In return he is guaranteed his safety, and the integrity of his kingdom...
...Neill joins a raid in which Bethlehem is snatched from its Saracen overlord. Returning in force, the Saracen prevails, but not until O'Neill has, with his bare hands, slain one of their champions. For this feat his life is spared by Kothra, the sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...
...with cash, scholarships, pensions, homes for poor people. Last week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...