Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing some of them, in wild retreat, to leap over the precipice. Most guided tours also stop for a look at Diamond Head and the starchy Victorian-style government buildings...
...Famous have been the reigns of our queens," said Winston Churchill last week. Britain's two golden ages-the Elizabethan and the Victorian-bore the names of queens. Five queens have reigned before Elizabeth...
...turbulent debates over the Reform Bill and during the unsettling changes of the Industrial Revolution, she quarreled frequently with her ministers. As she grew older, and her Empire prospered and expanded, she came to exemplify Britain's solid, enduring middle-class virtue, summed up in the word Victorian. When it came time to celebrate her diamond jubilee in 1897, Britain was at the summit of its imperial power and glory, and recognized in her the symbol of its majesty...
...American college girl is not the shining example of Victorian morality that she used to be according to two polls on the extra-curricular sexual activities at women's colleges conducted recently by Dartmouth and University of Pennsylvania students...
This month marked the first anniversary of the University. Institution of Applied Biology in Jamaica Plain. Inside the old Victorian building lies the modern Blood Characterization and Preservation Laboratory where revolutionary new blood processing equipment--to collect blood from donors and simultaneously separate it into its component parts is being developed...