Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared it under the Union Jack. This gained a semblance of international recognition when Britain was able to slap a tax on all whales tried out in British Antarctic bases, enforce it until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Admiral Sir James Clark Ross. Then Australia claimed a slice of its own to the west...
Married. Harold Wallace Ross, 48, editor of The New Yorker; and Arianne Allen, 25, blonde model, of Beverly Hills, Calif.; she for the first time, he for the third; at Roselle Park...
Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes's farm there were 15,000 of them-come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship...
...History of Byzantine Enameling" will be the subject of a free, public lecture by Marvin C. Ross, associate curator of Medieval and Decoration Arts, of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Fogg Art Museum...
...Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice...