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Word: sonnets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Civic Association--non-partisan reform group--still retains its majority of five. MacNamara, like Sonnet, is an independent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacNamara Succeeds Deceased Councilman | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Monthly Santayana's main contribution was in the form of verse, most of it sonnets. In the main they were of a vaguely romantic nature, as epitomized by the following sonnet...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...second volume of the Monthly, issued in the spring of 1886, he wrote an article on "The Ethical Doctrine of Spinoza," and a sonnet, the later an early example of his non-conventional spirituality. It ends...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...first Protestants, were followers of a French merchant named Peter Waldo. They publicly objected to papal pomp and corruption, and in the 13th Century were driven into the hills, where they managed to survive despite sporadic attempts to exterminate them. One massacre inspired Milton to write his famed sonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Village of Love | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...whip lash in the face is considered bad manners, at least. When it happened twice last week to a jockey in Siena, Italy, he quit and let his whip-wielding rival win. Instead of being barred for life for such tactics, the winner was wined & dined, and a sonnet composed in his honor was distributed throughout the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vendetta on Horseback | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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