Word: ro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things went reasonably well for a while, but soon Roussel discovered that Byzan tine Empire politics were veined with in trigue and deceit. When Emperor Ro-manus Diogenes and his huge force of 60,000 men were beaten by treachery at Manzikert in 1071, confusion became the real ruler of the Empire. Emperors were made and unmade overnight, and an honest free-lance soldier scarcely knew his employer from one battle to the next. Roussel tried desperately to keep on the winning side, and for a time it seemed that his chance for a personal domain might come. But when...
...politics, Europe last week was making faster progress towards it than it had in all of a year. EDC-the scheme to get the Germans into uniform on the side of the West within the straitjacket of a European Defense Community-had risen from its supposed deathbed. Büro Blank, the embryonic Defense Ministry of West Germany, casually let it be known that 105,000 volunteers are ready to don European Army uniforms; to prove that the Ruhr can arm them (a point that has been proved before), German industrialists staged an impressive display of military trucks and signals...
...Secretariat everything from a "magnified radio console" to "a sandwich on end." Old Revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright snorted that the design is mere "skyscraperism-a sinister emblem for world power." Said Critic Lewis (The Culture of Cities) Mumford: "A Christmas package wrapped in cellophane ... manticism." a triumph of irrelevant ro Architect Harrison is used to having these stones shied at his glass houses. And he is a pragmatist. "If in five years," says he, "somebody finds a way to build that is so much more wonderful that he wants to tear the U.N. down and rebuild...
...students from the College of William and Mary met one night in 1776 to form a new fraternity. The fraternity was to be nothing like other roistering student societies of the day. It was to have as its motto the first letters of three Greek words: 3>io(ro(f)la Btou KvfiepvrjTijs ("Love of wisdom the guide of life"). The letters, chosen that night, have remained stamped on U.S. higher education ever since-Phi Beta Kappa...
Harvard: Craven, Taylor, g; Ufford, Tiger, rfb; Doermann, Kiggen, lfb; Leonard, rhb; Florin, chb; Harding, Callahan, lhb; Knowlton, Joyce, ro; Baker, Beer, ri; Rodriguez, Seaga, cf; Getchell, Davies, li; Johnson, lo. Scoring: Second period--Rodriguez...