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Word: tudors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...activities to the nation's public schools. The Rutherford, N.J. Board of Education approved a Gideons offer to give copies of the New Testament, bound with the Old Testament Books of Psalms and Proverbs, to public-school children whose parents made written requests. But a Jewish father, Bernard Tudor, backed by the American Jewish Congress, and a Catholic parent, Ralph Le Coque (who later withdrew from the case), contested the plan in court and obtained a temporary injunction. This week the New Jersey supreme court unanimously made it permanent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Biblical Injunction | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...Mary Tudor, by H. F. M. Prescott. A; penetrating biography of the woman known to history as "Bloody Mary"; a revised edition of Author Prescott's 1940 Spanish Tudor (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...professor of History at Harvard, with the agreement that he could teach and still have time to tend to Radcliffe. He accepted, wound up his Chicago affairs, and was inaugurated in October of 1943. He still teaches one course each year and gives a graduate seminar in the Tudor and Stuart periods of English history...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Radcliffe's Jordan: 10 Years in Retrospect | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

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