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Word: sovereignity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Tucker. Last week Painter Namatjira was back in his simple wooden house in Hermannsburg after his first trip to eastern Australia. Albert made the 1,200-mile journey to Canberra in response to a gold-crested invitation to meet his sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II. After being presented to the Queen, he attended a lavish state ball where the tables groaned with caviar and pheasant. Commented Albert, who still eats honey ants at home: "Good tucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bushman to Brushman | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...measures in the McCarran Act. It is the same kind of battle fought by men like Justice Sutherland on behalf of another kind of liberty twenty years ago. The same principles are there: that individual liberty needs Court protection from legislative whim; that "a state does not possess a sovereign right to behave unreasonably in its relations with its subjects"; that arbitrary subversive legislation can easily be extended to permit the grossest kind of abuse...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Public Policy | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...speaker was the only woman in the British Commonwealth who had the right to talk of England's Queen on such terms of equality: Her Majesty Salote Tupou, Sovereign Ruler of the Eden-like Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, the Friendly Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reunion in Paradise | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...meet Elizabeth at her coronation in London. Many a Londoner still has a vivid impression of the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), infinitely dignified Polynesian monarch as she rode through the rain in her open coronation carriage, disdaining the protection of even an umbrella in deference to her sister sovereign. The cheers that resounded for Queen Salote on London's streets that day were second only in volume (by actual measurement) to those which rang out for Elizabeth herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reunion in Paradise | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...others with actively attacking our churches. I do call to your attention the forces in our society which stand to benefit by the weakening of the Protestant free churches. First, the secular forces of totalitarianism, Communist and fascist, which hate the church which holds God, not man, is sovereign. Second, the religious forces, superfundamentalist and anti-Protestant, which believe that they alone have full truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Stated Clerk's View | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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