Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend Bathurst Skelton. According to the family story ?he himself is reticent about his private life?Jefferson apparently misjudged the traveling time and arrived with his new bride at Monticello in the snow late one night. Only a one-room building for his use was completed at the tune, and the servants had all gone to bed, leaving no fires burning. Despite that inauspicious beginning, the Jeffersons appear unusually contented. They have one daughter, Martha, 4 (a second daughter died this year at two), and Mrs. Jefferson is thought to be expecting another child early next year. Jefferson...
...Paris. The company is to buy arms and ammunition from French arsenals and ship them to America, either directly or through islands in the Caribbean, where they will be exchanged for American products, then forwarded to America. If the Americans run out of produce or cannot deliver on tune, the arms will be shipped on credit. If they do have valuable goods, Roderique Hortalez & Cie.-meaning Beaumarchais and two partners-stands to make a sizable profit. Either way, the Americans get the arms...
...courtiers (for which she paid him a fee of ?10,000 plus ?2,000 for expenses, an annuity of ?500 for life, and a barony in the Russian empire). Despite these successes, critics kept insisting that inoculation spread the disease. As a result, the practice was banned at one tune or another in almost all the colonies. The New York law of 1747, for example, "strictly prohibits and forbids all [doctors] to inoculate for the small pox any person or persons ... on pain of being prosecuted to the utmost rigour...
...higher institutions like Harvard in the future will be by the big educational combines. "Five years ago, higher education was sacrosanct to the government," he says. "Now, institutions are forced to compete head on with other groups and other needs, and the role of associations thus seems more in tune with political and social reality...
...patched by Light (one of Miss Taylor's incarnations) to search out the Blue Bird. On their mission, the kids visit the . Veil of Memory, where they find Grand ma and Grandpa snoozing. Soon after awakening and greeting the kids, these two devout peasants sing a little tune about the melancholy restrictions of heaven. It seems that in paradise, Grandma and Grandpa are not permit ted to work, and they are chafing under such unseemly leisure. The kids are sympathetic, but continue their search for the Blue Bird. Grandma and Grandpa then lapse into an impromptu imitation...