Word: referse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he ascended the famed Peacock Throne, the Shah's name was Reza Khan. The Pahlavi he added means "Parthian" in Persian. The phrase "a Parthian shot" refers to the classic Parthian archers' tactic of shooting arrows over their shoulders as they fled. Last week, before he started...
With disloyalists like Japanese Puppet Wang Ching-wei and other questionable elements, China faces the fifth-column problem in an acute form, and Chiang is acutely conscious of it. He refers his people not to the fall of France but to Chinese history: "You should instruct our people to take...
* Authorities differ on the spelling and significance of Peralta's nickname. Spelled Mate Cocido, it means brewed yerba mate, a native tea, on which the bandit lived during a prison term. Spelled Mate Cosido, it refers to a wound Peralta got in a brush with police, means, in slang...
The principle maintained by the Corporation does not apply to athletics alone but refers to racial equality "among all students." No statement, however, could be obtained from officials of the Glee Club, which barred a colored singer from taking its Southern spring vacation trip because of opposition from Southern colleges...
Addressed to Henry Lee Shattuck '01, Senior Fellow and presiding officer of the Corporation, the petition refers to the Eliot House tutor's "capacities as an original and provocative thinker in the field of Government" and to his "helpfulness as a tutor."