Word: seventeenth
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...historian of modern Europe, he has taught seventeenth-century history and modern German history he joined the Harvard faculty in spent 1955-56 in Germany as a Guggenheim Fellow and became an professor here the following year...
...Strasbourg in Transition, won the coveted Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for 1958. Ford has also written on seventeenth-century alignments of the French Robe and Sword and contributed to The Diplomats: 1919-1939. His most recent work was "The World of lightenment" in Columbia University's 1961 publication Chapters in Civilization...
...sons, she lives in Alexandria, manages the insurance department of her husband's real estate office. She is acting president of the Order of the First Families of Virginia, a member of the Colonial Dames of America, the Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century. Daughters of Colonial Wars. Order of the Crown and the Lords of the Maryland Manors...
Those readers who insist upon filing contemporary writers to the pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth-century world of religious nightmare, alchemical daydream, and academic short-circuit, in which an inherited logic grinned at itself and morbidity became bumptious. In one of the 1954 poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal...
Holton plans to study unpublished and little known works of the seventeenth century astronomer and physicist Johannes Kepler. Housed in the archives of the University of Leningrad, the manuscripts were bought by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, during...