Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the strategic, oil-rich realm of the Shah of Shahs, 29-year-old Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, had no government. The cabinet of deaf* old Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
...crucial battle for the realm of rubble in Europe's heart was coming to a head. The outcome would decide Europe's future and, in large measure, the world...
...tomb, the faint flicker of smoky yellow wax candles reflected in their jet-black eyes. They also remembered Cou-cou, their last "king," who had settled down in a house with a blue-papered bedroom. Recently, possibly because of his overly soft life, he had passed on to the realm "where a sweeter music is and where the prince of fiddlers plays...
...Harvard to demand a high standard of education is certainly reasonable. For Harvard to say that it offers such a fine education here that no other institution may compare--and in effect that is what College policy maintains--is absurbd, particularly in the realm of foreign studies. William H. Wasserman...
Cornell was a tough oarsmen battle last week, but predictions on tomorrow's struggle with Navy and Pennsylvania's crews seem to relegate the Crimson's previous defeat to the realm of canoeing on a moonlit lake...