Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first lap of the postwar international air race, Britain had bet on the long-beaked Avro Tudor. Britain hoped the Tudor would help the nation get by without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
...Tudor IVs stayed in service until B.S.A.A.'s Star Tiger, flying from the Azores with 31 aboard, disappeared in January 1948. Last Jan. 17 a sister ship disappeared off Bermuda with 20 aboard...
Houston has been working with Tudor Gardiner and John Harkness, former Crimson, wrestling greats. Harkness, national 175-pound champ in 1938, is perhaps the best wrestler Harvard has turned out in the last decade...
...clearly, "Charles Philip Arthur George." "I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost," said the Archbishop, dabbing water from the font on the baby's brow. Young Prince Charles gurgled demurely, and ten well-scrubbed choirboys in Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold sang out O Worship the King. Afterwards there was tea and christening cake, and everyone drank the baby's health in champagne...
...Margaret Irwin's latest jazzed-up documentary on England's first Elizabeth. Taking the 19-year-old princess from the death of her young half-brother Edward VI to the marriage of her half-sister Mary, the book, is the second in a series on the redheaded Tudor (the first, Young Bess, was a 1945 bestseller), which promises to continue as long as Miss Irwin and her readers can stand it. Meaning to be more or less true to history, it manages only to be undistinguished either as scholarship or fiction...