Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life in the crammed streets behind curtains only fortnightly white. He even wanted to become a subject of the King. But Britain's Home Office was not looking for immigrants. It declared that Davis was using up needed food and clothing, and ordered him to leave the realm...
...grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie, as one of the directors of the new British North Borneo Company, moved into a mud hut and kept a sharp eye on the natives. The Company set up its own Governor, cabinet and judges, to carry civilization into the island's steep, wild mountains. Largely because...
...grey Ionic columns give an impression of opulent security worthy of a king's exchequer. This is Unilever House. In front stands a statue of Queen Victoria, symbol of Empire. The juxtaposition is apt. For Unilever House is an empire within the Empire, the greatest industrial realm in the British world...
Spreading themselves beyond the realm of Greater Boston, '01 and '26 reunions will center around the Cliff Hotel at Scituate, while '31 will go as far afield as Poland Spring, Maine, for its fifteenth. Members of '31 left yesterday noon on special cars of the "Flying Yankee"; they will return tomorrow in time for the baseball game...
...book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...