Word: portale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard student, and I might say the incident occurred a half hour rather than fifteen minutes before the game began. It has been suggested that this individual may have been a prankster but his serious mien showed no evidence of it and he made his exit through the Harvard portal...
...Queen's old heroes would have their place of due honor at the coronation: Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ...
...Soldiers from the far reaches of his Commonwealth led the procession, followed by the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from Scotland, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Irish Guards, and detachments of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Britain's greatest soldiers walked with their men: Air Marshals Portal and Tedder, Field Marshals Alanbrooke, Ironside and Montgomery...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...photographs reproduced here are the result of the first systematic color study ever made of two of Chartres' greatest (west portal) windows. They were taken by James R. Johnson, a Columbia University art instructor, who used a 70-ft. scaffold to get close-ups of every panel...