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Victorians were appalled, but the Lawrence sisters saw their duty and did it. Nellie, Millie and Dollie Lawrence thought that young English ladies were too delicately nurtured; what they needed was a more robust schooling-the kind Eton gave to boys. On a breeze-bathed seacoast near Brighton, in 1885, the sisters built their new Roedean (rhymes with so keen) School...
...driving rain, at Britain's seacoast town of Deal, the Mayor and a handful of raincoated freemen gathered to pay solemn tribute to a conqueror. The occasion : the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Julius Caesar on the 2,000th anniversary of his invasion...
This yarn of all weathers-in which Shakespeare brought "dead" queens back to life, gave Bohemia a seacoast and tossed the wondrous stage direction, "Exit, pursued by a bear"-is not often, or easily, produced. Last week it got a fairly good production, turned out to be a fairly lively evening. If the hey-nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though...
...seacoast fire-control radar" can detect individual vessels 25 miles out to sea through the soupiest nor'easter, with a five-yard margin of error at twelve miles...
...again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least, Poland was the gainer; what Russia had taken from her was largely agricultural...