Word: vi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first British monarch to .speak ("from my home and from my heart. . .to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them") to his subjects over the radio. Elizabeth's father George VI insisted on making the broadcast even while wasting away after the removal of a lung, painfully recording a phrase or two at a time in an agonizing ordeal that took two days...
GroupDate I, M 8 Sat., Jan. 18 II, M 9 Mon., Jan. 20 III, M 10 Mon., Jan. 27 IV, M 11 Wed., Jan. 29 V, M 12 Thurs., Jan. 23 VI, M 1 Wed., Jan. 22 VII, M 2 Sat., Jan. 25 VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII...
...attribute most of this year's decrease to the stricter Departmental requirements imposed last spring. The weaker students are shifting to other fields. In last year's sophomore group, about 20% were Group VI or on unsatisfactory standing. This year we have none in either group," stated McCord...
What's the matter with Eisenhower, wearing the British Order of Merit at the White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth? Isn't being President of the United States enough distinction for him? Then what's he doing wearing this dog tag from the late George VI? If George Washington heard about this, he would turn over in his grave-and Abraham Lincoln...
...Thurber. "He nursed an editorial phobia about what he called the functional: 'bathroom and bedroom stuff.' Years later he deleted from a Janet Planner 'London Letter' a forthright explanation of the nonliquid diet imposed upon the royal family and dignitaries during the coronation of George VI. 'So-and-so can't write a story without a man in it carrying a woman to bed,' he wailed. And again, 'I'll never print another [John] O'Hara story I don't understand. I want to know what his people...