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Gradually the sand piled over the village of the day-fearing Picts. Their poor arts and crafts grew even poorer. At last came the invading Vikings, who did not kill all the Picts. A few survived for a while, to live as trembling serfs on the outskirts of the Viking settlement...
...embassy), the fun-loving duke was a World War I hero, a collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted his poorer tenants remission of arrears and a week's free rent, but hoped in vain for a son to succeed...
...first 100 years are alleged to be the hardest, but the 101st year of Harvard rowing finds the situation about the same as usual a good crew (in this case, Harvard) meets a poorer crew (in this case, Yale) and the result is absolutely impossible to predetermine...
Cheers in the Streets. His reward for a lifetime of doing his job well came in the Silver Jubilee celebration of 1935, the year before he died. Drawn by four greys with postilions, the King and his Queen drove around the poorer quarters of London, through Battersea, Kennington and Lambeth, Limehouse and Whitechapel. Everywhere, his subjects turned out to applaud and cheer...
Pennsylvania, on the other hand, has managed to beat Rutgers by several lengths, but the Rutgers boat rowed a far poorer race than on the Charles two weeks...