Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth . . . that heaven . . . man . . . peace for mankind, who made Xerxes king. . . . My father is Darius. ... He wrought many excellent things. . . . When my father Darius went away from the throne, by the grace of Ahuramazda I became king. ... I wrought many excellent things...
...well deserved disrepute. The only remaining method for encouraging buying is to improve the product and to lower its price. Reluctantly and as a last resort some industries have decided to make long awaited technical improvements in their processes and goods. Perhaps the stolid engineer will soon occupy the throne which the florid sales man has abdicated...
...bastian, French police had raided a little blue-timbered white house at St. Jean-de-Luz, had captured the two sallow youths and a large store of arms and ammunition fresh from U. S. factories. They confessed, and one more plot to restore long-jawed Alfonso XIII to the throne of Spain was bud-nipped...
Peter the Great came to the throne of Russia quite literally through the grace of God, who was, it is true, substantially aided by the inability of the nation to fathom the devious method of Russian statecraft. Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child...
...head throbbed. Obviously there was no gratitude in this world, no sense of loyalty. His own brother, slack-chinned Prince Nicholas (the one member of the royal family who stuck by Carol in all his marital difficulties, the one of whom he has frequently said "I owe the throne to him"), had so far forgotten himself to marry a commoner! In bed with tonsilitis & bronchitis King Carol hoarsely croaked: "It's an outrage to the Hohenzollern Dynasty...