Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear of theft...
...real prerequisites for majoring in English which the Department doesn't mention. 1. It's always nice for the purposes of the field if you like to read, because you're going to spend three years doing it. 2. If you can't correlate material, and just plow through the printed pages without keeping the development and ideas of English literature in mind, you'll leave Harvard just as uninformed as you were when you came...
...bettors choice was Freebooter, a coffee-colored gelding and half-brother of an Irish plow horse. But the sentimental favorite of thousands of British housewives was Princess Elizabeth's Monaveen. Last week, in Aintree's bright spring sunshine, Britain's royal family peered down from the roof of the clubhouse as anxiously as any two-shilling bettor as the 49 starters crowded to the post...
...Having no respect for themselves, they seem to prefer to have men speak at their clubs, to work for male bosses, and to vote for a second-rate man in an election rather than a first-rate woman. Since they no longer churn the butter, make the candles, plow the fields, or even bring their husbands a dowry, they are deeply plagued by a "sense of parasitism...
Under a Massachusetts law, the Superintendent of Streets is empowered to call in police to remove any car that is in the way of a snow plow, Cunningham said...