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Isabel Arundell was a poor-relation of a great Roman Catholic family, convent-schooled, country-bred. At 16 she soaked her brain in the Orientalisms of Disraeli's novel Tancred (which she reread constantly all her life); and at 16 she was deeply impressed by the following prophecy, .from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Eccentrics | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Today the palace where the Constitutions were declared is a moldering, overgrown ruin on private land near Salisbury. Dr. Tancred Borenius of London's University College, eminent Finnish-born scholar, diplomat and dendrologist, has been cutting away the ash trees, clearing out wagonloads of earth. Laid bare were parts of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

But many nationalities were represented: Flemings, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Normans, Angles, Scots, Italians, Britons, Greeks, Armenians. After Jerusalem had fallen, Sigurd, King of the Vikings, came in his dragonships with 10,000 men. Altogether these Crusaders numbered some 280,000, of whom 250,000 died before they won Jerusalem. Nominal leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God Wills It! | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

The line-up: HARVARD SECOND. ANDOVER. Spencer, l.e. r.e., Lynn, Balis Williams, l.t. r.t., Fisher, Leighton, Driver Corbett, l.g. r.g., Thompson Pell, c. c., Moore Russell, r.g. l.g., Austin, Greenough Kersburg, r.t. l.t., Hobbs Palmer, r.e. l.e., Schildmiller Remick, Sortwell, q.b. q.b., Dillon, Morehead Harrington, Dearborn, l.h.b. r.h.b., Bartholomew Means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover, 24; Second Eleven, 0. | 10/13/1904 | See Source »

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