Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange it is that this "standpat" Republican should have been born in Guilford, N. C., in 1836 in the reign of Andrew Jackson, whose Democratic pals spilled cider on the White House carpets. Then he spent his boyhood near Terre Haute...
...Last year His Holiness issued a most significant encyclical letter, establishing a new institution: The Feast of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as King -to occur every year and in all the world on the last Sunday of October. Its purpose is to recapitulate the claim of Our Lord to reign over the minds, wills, hearts of men, claims too often neglected or forgotten, a sin which His Holiness states is responsible for "the deluge of evils" which has recently invaded the world. But the most discussed section of the encyclical (TIME, March 29) is that in which His Holiness calls...
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, English literature became for the first time truly English. Chaucer it is true took for his characters inhabitants of England, but if one reads contemporary Continental literature one may find the identical personalities. Shakspere on the other hand, placed the action of some of his dramas in foreign countries, but the characters are purely English...
...months it has been rumored that the probable incapacity of these princes to reign will cause the succession to be transferred to their younger brother, Prince Juan, now aged...
Then in the reign of Robert II, the 14th lineal hair of Oldman, gold was discovered in the Mosquito realm. Santos Zelaya, the heavy-fisted dictator of Nicaragua, promptly led an invading army into the Indian territory. Thus perished in 1894, after a short, sharp struggle, the sovereignty of the Mosquito Kings. Soldiers of fortune, gold-hunters, and all the scavengers of the Caribbean flocked into the conquered realm. Guatemala emerged after several years of political juggling, the owner of the Mosquito coast...