Word: pollarding
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...POLLARD GARRISON...
Second in interest are the quarto volumes of the plays, especially the first quarto of Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), the Whole Contention (spurious), and the so-called quarto of King Lear (1608). These are opened to display the carnation emblem and the typography upon which Professor Pollard of the University of London bases his thesis that the Lear and the Whole Contention together with six other plays similarly marked and printed, and variously dated 1600, 1608, and 1619, were in reality all printed and bound together by Jaggard...
...Meters Hurdles: Milton Green, Harvard; Fritz Pollard, Jr., Brown; Ray McLaughlin, M.I.T...
...fire in 1747, part of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s $12,000,000 scheme to restore Williamsburg to its 18th Century glory. At a joint session in the austere room of the House of Burgesses, the General Assembly of Virginia saw onetime Governors Davis, Trinkle, Byrd and Pollard on the dais, heard Governor Peery and Mr. Rockefeller speak. Said pious Mr. Rockefeller: "What a temptation to sit in silence and let the past speak to us of those great patriots whose voices once resounded in these halls. Well may we say to ourselves in the words which the Captain...
...lambasted the Senator's "boss rule" of the State. But Virginia Democrats like ''Boss'' Byrd and when they went to the polls last week they cast a 2-to-1 vote nominating his man. Nominee Peery's election in November to succeed Governor Pollard is a foregone conclusion...