Word: queen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return Herbert Hoover laid wreaths on the tombs of King Albert and Queen Astrid, visited the Royal Palace, forgathered with veterans of the old Commission for Relief in Belgium, said: "I am happy, really happy, to be in Belgium again...
...report of the Maritime Commission of the condition of the U. S. Merchant Marine advised shipping lines to (1 build a new luxury liner larger than the Queen Mary, 2. go into the business of transoceanic air transport instead of building superliners, 3 stand on their own feet and not demand Government subsidies, 4 hire only union men, 5 hire more Annapolis graduates as ship's officers...
...second collection at Widener is Harvard's copy of the earliest Irish New Testament. This was published in 1602 with the help of Queen Elizabeth after fifteen years of translation from English to Gaelic and given to the College by Fred N. Robinson '91, Guerney Professor of English, at the Tercentenary celebration. Among the Irish manuscripts on display are "The Dialogue of St. Patrick and Ossian," "The Story of Eadhmonn O'Cleirridh," and "Trompa Na Bflaithios...
...would vex many solid Netherlanders should they ever find themselves with a Queen having such a name as Beatrix, and Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina was understood to have made last week this firm stipulation: should Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard ever come to the throne it will be as "Queen Wilhelmina...
...mankind." Magellan he defends as a sincere Christian whose ruthlessness was only an unavoidable means toward a great end. His generally known facts take in less detail than most biographers'. As in Author Zweig's other defenses of historical figures he considers maligned (Marie Antoinette, Mary, Queen oj Scotland and the Isles), his method is that of the biographical essay; his persuasiveness is that of the eloquent defense attorney. Thus, where the facts go too strongly against him (as with Magellan's execution of his Spanish captains and South American natives). Author Zweig asks the jury...