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...noble, the Duke of Orleans, seized a torch and, shouting "Who are they? We'll soon find out!" lit the string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers survived...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Only 15 Days Until . . . | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

...been going from shop to shop in late September with a request that the stores close on account of the Garfield obsequies: when he came to Haggerty's business, he noticed the beer pump dripping and saw several men standing at a counter drinking. Though not positive, the officer throught they were drinking ale. Since city laws prohibited a grocer from serving liquor on the premises, the officer brought the case before the Board...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: City Politics a Century Ago: A Liquor and Trains Election | 11/3/1981 | See Source »

...show that most theories are either reduced, made simpler in format and broader in scope--or replaced, with another competing theory receiving wider acceptance. But important ideas are rarely "synthesized." Individual theories are rarely merged to answer a single program of interdisciplinary questions. But development in evolutionary and genetic throught from 1918 to 1947 provides an exception to this trend...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: The Ongoing Evolutionary Synthesis | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

...alarm for two hours of rest. At 8:30 a jackhammer started up outside her window. Heather slept through it. At 9:15 her alarm went off, but she didn't hear it. At 11 the jackhammer started up again, and she jumped out of bed. She never throught she'd be grateful to have a jackhammer wake her. She typed all day, except for the hour she couldn't get on the computer because her sophomore-year roommate had accidently incapacitated two of the machines and was nowhere to be found. Vaguely she remembered having an hourly that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...important fifth game, Springfield's home court advantage may have made the essential difference. Playing in the Springfield bandbox gym--which makes the IAB look like the Astrodome--50 fans gave the home team an edge that Trumball throught may have been worth as much as five points...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Springfield Spikers Down Crimson 3-2 | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

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