Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bulls of Alexander VI, on which, as its magna charta, Spain founded its right, all the regions which had been, or should be discovered, were bestowed as a free gift upon Ferdinand and Isabella. They, and their successors, were uniformly held to.be the universal proprietors of the vast territories acquired by conquest in the new world. * * * It was an opinion, perhaps as ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded...
...slender, dexterous, rubber gloved hands of Sir Hugh Rigby applied the knife. Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal...
...Elected. Right Rev. Dr. William Temple, 47, Bishop of Manchester, descendant of Lady Godiva of Coventry and remotely related by marriage with the family of King George; to be Archbishop of York, succeeding Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, newly-enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury...
...less than a week the outcome will be in the lap of the gods and all Harvard supporters. Mr. Bingham has proved that he has the courage of his convictions, and has a right to expect unanimous support in his struggles with the elusive new plant. The walls, rising brick on brick, will soon lend tangibility to a cause which heretofore has suffered from uncertainty...
...second term opens or whether he remains about the college to haunt the scones of his former glory. To such unimaginative souls he can quote Shakespeare that "There are more things in Heaven and earth Horation, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and the Vagabond would have little right to his claims of superior knowledge if he had not managed to discover enough of the more pleasant kind to keep him occupied during the leisure period. So he expects to enjoy quite as merry a Christmas as the one he now wishes his followers, and only reminds them that...