Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...string of titles - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Caliph of Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
Coachi Ulen's seconds string relay team, composed of Crosby, Coburn, Lagerene, and Burnham, downed the best that Brown could offer in the closing event...
...Debate Council's anticipated string of victories was stopped cold Saturday evening as a visiting team from Yale talked its way to a unanimous decision over the Crimson debaters to avenge last month's loss to the Harvard team on the same topic...
...customary to begin a review of a Budapest Quartet concert by launching into effusive praise of what has rightly been called the greatest string quartet of the twentieth century. A listener can only marvel at the Quartet's richness and clear, full tones, to say nothing of its amazing technical proficiency in all the intricacies of the string quartet...
...choice of Cowen by his teammates added a little more mystery to a situation that had been clouded all season. While guard Frank LeBart had served as acting captain of all the 1945 contests, Coach Harlow chose Tom Tennant, first string quarterback, to represent the team at the Boston sportswriters' luncheon...