Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ridden more winning horses (4,670) than any other jockey alive or dead. When Gordon Richards' name turned up last week on Queen Elizabeth's honors list, with word that he was to receive the first knighthood ever conferred on a jockey, millions of Britons beamed with sentiment. Five days later they made his horse Pinza a 5-1 co-favorite to win the one great race in which Jockey Richards had never had a winner in 27 years of trying: the Epsom Derby...
...market. Professional problem-solvers, from pedagogues to the Reader's Digest variety, depend on it to escape the difficulties in their solutions and it is firmly enshrined in the American Success Story. A nation governed by philosopher-kings, with the entire population sharing the royal purple, is a splendid sentiment for commencements, one which graduating seniors will no doubt hear again and again...
Professor Lerner said that the Legion's protest was based on supposition, rather than fact, and that its success was a sign of the growing sentiment that accusation, no matter how unfounded, is tantamount to guilt...
...centuries of jurisdictional thrust and parry have reduced the crown's prerogatives. Elizabeth II, though ostensibly sovereign over everything and everyone British, may not publicly express any political sentiment, nor refuse to sign any bill of Parliament, even though it should require the abolition of monarchy. Yet what the crown has given up in authority, it has gained in public affection. Said Sir Winston Churchill last week: "A great battle is lost; Parliament turns out the government. A great battle is won; crowds cheer the Queen...
Faculty members applauded almost to a man Tuesday when the Corporation's decision to retain three who balked before Communist inquiries, and general sentiment remained unchanged yesterday...