Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your May 17 issue of TIME you refer to the Duke of Connaught as "Last surviving child of Queen Victoria," thus relegating to the realm of ghosts those two decidedly alive and grand old ladies, Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, both surviving offspring of the union of Victoria and Albert...
...amount he gets done each day is enormous. He's now in the process of writing a book on politics; has about finished "The Realm of Truth", and incidentally is revising a little play: "Philosophers At Court" concerning Plato's visit to Dionysius at Syracuse. At present for relaxation he's reading Latin poetry and touching up a few sonnets. He writes easily but carefully. Manuscripts are set aside for long periods of time; then if necessary undergo severe revision. It is no wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn...
...students, and the plant and equipment with which the Department labors ranks as among the finest laboratory facilities in the Country. And the field is valuable to the undergraduate not merely because it is an interesting subject in itself, but also because it supplies an excellent springboard into the realm of medicine...
...entrance of basketball into the realm of major sports has long been sought after and should not go unheralded. Not since 1913 has the number of major sports at Harvard been increased, and basketball, one of the more popular of the minors has suffered the handicaps which accompany the less important sports. Popular appeal has brought to the attention of Quincy Street officials the justification of promoting the position of the sport...
...choice pages the huge province of Burma, nearly seven times the size of England, was detached from India alto gether and set up as a separate British realm. Its ruler was appointed last week by the Emperor, George VI, his choice for Governor of Burma lighting upon Sir Archibald Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Star of India, D. S. O. Also de tached from India and set up last week as a Crown Colony was small, highly strategic Aden, only 80 sq. mi. in area...