Word: royal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another oath bill for Harvard was threatened in the 1740's as a punishment for Harvard indifference toward the evangelical revival, but it failed to pass. The Harvard Presidents, when Massachusetts was a Royal Province, were charged at their inauguration by the Royal Governor to preside 'with loyalty to our Sovereign Lord King George, and obedience to his laws...
...Grocery stores, plantations and homes, including those of Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross, were looted. In Kingstown, a burst of rifle fire from the police killed three natives, wounded eight. Next morning into the harbor steamed H. M. S. Challenger, and in a jiffy a landing party of Royal Marines were over the side and in the streets, ended the riot...
...eight suits. In the first four suits the values run from one to ten, with one the lowest. In the last four suits they run the opposite way with ten the lowest. A few of the more picturesque names of the suits are Ghulam, Slave; Chang, Harp; and Burart, Royal Diploma. The name of the pack is Gunja-Kha, which means "Relieving Scalp." They were invented to keep the hands of the king busy so that he would not scratch his head, or, as another version of the tale has it, so that he would not pull hairs...
...which Mr. Dole put up 4,500,000 cases. First Hawaiian sight glimpsed by travelers arriving from the "mainland" is an enormous pineapple (really a 400-ton water tank in disguise) on the roof of the Dole cannery. And along with Diamond Head. Pearl Harbor, Waikiki Beach and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Dole cannery, where drinking fountains spurt pineapple juice instead of water, is a famed Hawaiian spot that no visitor is allowed to miss. Hawaiians like Mr. Dole, father of their pineapple industry, because although the sugar industry grosses more dollars, sugar eaters do not care where that...
...Royal E. Robbins, of Boston, Milton Academy; Richard F. P. Smith, of Cambridge, Country Day School; David S. Stevens, of Lisbon, N. H., Phillips Exeter Academy; James L. Tyson, of New York City, Kent School; and Lucien Wulsin, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, St. George's School...