Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn to more pleasant duties. Selecting All-Star elevens is lots of fun and there never is any proof that you were absolutely wrong. But here's a last batch of games and scores before the next football season opens about forty weeks from now. Boston College will reign supreme in New England tonight, paced by the stoutest line in the East. Navy 7 Army 0 Boston College 13 Holy Cross 7 Stanford 14 Dartmouth 7 Duquesne 13 Detroit 7 Fordham 20 N.Y.U. 7 Georgia Tech. 13 Georgia 0 Rice 20 Baylor 13 U.S.C. 13 Washington 10 S.M.U. 10 T.C.U...
...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
Rich at Home. In the course of Wilhelmina's reign The Netherlands' population has risen from 5,000,000 to 8,500,000. More important, the country has changed from a predominantly agricultural to an increasingly industrial nation. Cheese, butter and tulip bulbs are still important exports, just as windmills, wooden shoes, dikes are still a part of the Dutch landscape. But more typical of The Netherlands in the 20th Century are its huge international banks, its thriving merchants, its busy manufacturers...
...Catherine II also was less Great than advertised, more liberal in word than in deed: The peasants "sank to the lowest level of slavery during her so-called enlightened reign." "She was a fairly clever woman . . . such a one as, given the means, might make a success as a London hostess...
...first year of king Franklin I's reign in 1933 the Crimson produced a 19 to 6 triumph but went into hibernation for the next three years, those marked by the presence of an end named Kelley at New Haven as the Ellis were on the top end of 14 to 0, 14 to 6, and 14 to 13 scores...