Word: raleighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ago Saturday, March 14, was the national Amateur Athletic Union meet in Raleigh, N.C. The only Crimson freshman attending the meet, Fred Elizalde, set a national junior record by winning the junior 200-yard butterfly in 2:31.0. He also holds the University record in the 200-yard butterfly, the race more usually reserved for dual meets...
...James Astrue will have used up all his leave. When M.C. Wendell asks him what British adventurer explored the waters around Jamestown in 1608 and afterward the waters around New England, what will he say? Will he say John Smith and stay on the show? Or will he say Raleigh, lose his championship to one Dave Fries, and go back to duty with a check for $143,600 in his pocket? Tune in to NBC, Friday, March 20, 12 noon E.S.T...
...time of ballads rather than newspapers, and of myths rather than statistics. In London's squalid streets magnificence belonged alone to the church and state, and genius lived in the persons of the statesmen-Sir Philip Sidney, Cecil and Raleigh-as much as in Shakespeare, who celebrated the glory of Elizabeth's monarchy. It was also a time of all-embracing religious conflict; when religion then walked not only the hairline of individual faith but the tightrope of policy. Catholic and Protestant were "in a state of mind near insanity" over the tortures they inflicted on each other...
Sunken Empire. Author Magnus, biographer of Edmund Burke, Gladstone and Walter Raleigh, has painted in Kitchener the picture of a man as oldfashioned, absurd and honorable as a Royal Academy portrait. It was probably with some relief that Kitchener's colleagues learned that the Royal Navy cruiser H.M.S. Hampshire hit a German mine in the North Sea in 1916 and was lost with nearly all hands. Yet it was as if an empire had sunk with Kitchener...
...Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snow man contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white...