Word: reign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the notoriety that attended the disappearance of Miss Frances Smith. Embraced by rumor and the zealous press, that institution has been unusually subject to the stupidities that characterize such attentions. "Alumnae want to know," the letter states, "Whether it is true that there has been a 'reign of terror' on the campus and whether, as has been said, twenty-six other girls have disappeared." Denying categorically that the college is a hot bed of radicalism, atheism, and immorality, the bulletin says further, "It is apparent that current magazines and daily papers are at present subjecting all colleges...
...University's uninterrupted reign of four years as champion of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association was definitely broken yesterday when the Newton Centre Club defeated the University racquetmen, 4-1, on the former's courts. Team B likewise suffered a defeat, falling at the small end of a 4-1 score in its match with the Harvard Club in Boston. The Freshman players and team, C, not having a match scheduled for Saturday with any outside teams, played a game on the University courts, in which the first year men were victorious by a score...
...what he believes the world owes to the Bolsheviki. He pointed out that although a similarity exists between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution in that the two are the greatest liberating events in human history, the latter contains no incidents to compare with the horror of the Reign of Terror. It is due to the lack of perspective that people generally think that nothing exceeds the moral depravity and terror of the Russian Revolution, Dr. Holmes stated...
...Sultan. "The Sultan is dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
...King was born into the world it is His Majesty Alfonso XIII. English men do not require to be told this. They know it, for they know him. The King's ascendancy over his subjects, the mastery of his statesmanship, have been shown at every stage of his reign. They explain how the country is held together in progress and prosperity through a thousand political vicissitudes. Elaboration is needless here...