Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...
...authority on English constitutional development, the new professor will give courses in medieval English history. She is the author of numerous books and articles in her field, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society...
...drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West. It annually holds the famed American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, sends steaks to half the continent, and has already placed a plaque on the spot (in the Muehlebach Hotel) where Harry Truman signed the first Greek-Turkish aid bill...
Added to the hospitality of the Rugby Week Committee, headed by Stanley Gascoigne and Stuart Outerbridge, was that of the British Army, for the Harvard team was quartered at the Royal Army's Prospect Officers Mess while on the island. Most of the British personnel, including the famous Gloucestershire Regiment, were down at British Honduras where they were putting down a native insurrection in true Kipling style. The remaining Britishers, however, seemed quite delighted to allow the Harvard team to take over their mess facilities for breakfasts, and to have free rein around the camp. They also provided a cheering...
...real cause of defeat. Within five minutes after the game opened, Joe Eaton, in blocking a punt, caught a Princeton kicker's foot squarely in his stomach. Although he came back to play in the second half, he was in poor shape, and that night was taken to the Royal Army hospital for treatment. A few minutes after Eaton was carried off the field, Hunt Mauran had his jaw broken, but he played out the remainder of the first half. Only that evening did an x-ray show the break, and the Harvard squad found itself minus...