Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oldest of the seventeen colleges in Cambridge University, England, is Peterhouse, founded over six hundred years ago during the reign of Edward...
Probably the largest literary prize ever offered is that of $1,000,000 to be given in 1925 by the Russian Academy for the best work on the life and reign of Alexandria I. In 1855, shortly after the death of Alexandria I, the sum of 50,000 rubies was offered by one of his favorite ministers, to be given as a prize a century after his death, and this at compound interest will amount in 1925 to $1,000,000. - Yale News...
...lady, intensely interested in ancient history, to Harvard junior: "Ah, Mr. H -, when you think of the old Egyptians do you not feel impressed with the sense of our indebtedness to the great Rosetta Stone?" Harvard junior, slightly discomposed, but coming gallantly forward: "Yes, yes indeed; but then her reign only gives us a further proof of woman's influence, you know." Enthusiastic young lady descends to a lower level. - Boston Journal...
...sports of this band? If this be the case, our lost will indeed be an unhappy one." With this they all departed, each to his own home, saying in his heart, "Verily the gods are kind to us in that they have given us such a good king to reign over...
...literati is looking out for something to occupy his talents over, we would suggest to him that he write for the prize which the Russian Academy offers for the best essay on the life and reign of Alexander I. The minister of Alexander I. left a bequest of 50,000 roubles in charge of the Academy, with the conditions attached that the money, after accumulating for one hundred years, should be given to the writer of the best work on his master the Czar. The Academy, therefore, now announces a prize competition for this bequest. Inasmuch as the original donation...