Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
...show spanned eleven centuries, from the reign of Constantine I to the killing of the last Constantine by his Moslem conquerors in 1453. Throughout those dark ages Byzantium had blazed, fitfully bright, as the half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike. Baltimore's entire exhibition would have been barely enough to ornament a single villa for a favorite courtesan of the 9th Century Emperor Theophilus. In a day when Rome was a vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply...
...reign of evening silence in the Yard will end almost before it begins tomorrow when 150-able-throated members of the University Glee Club sound forth at 7 o'clock to renew the traditional series of spring concerts on the Widener steps...
Holy Cross downed the Oklahoma Aggies last night, 58 to 47, to end the long reign of western teams as basketball champions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, in the East-West finale at Madison Square Garden...
...After three days & nights of terror, in Rawalpindi proper the situation is now fairly quiet, but in the surrounding countryside there is a reign of lawlessness on a scale not known in British India since the Mutiny of 1857. Every village is prey to roving gangs. Groups of scared refugees flee through the fields as gangs of 15 to 30 men trudge the highways, armed with long, dangerous-looking clubs. From the crest of one hill, I could see five villages burning. At Mandra junction at dawn on March 9, 2,000 Moslems swooped down on Hindu and Sikh quarters...