Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-governing dominions-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland-together with the secretary of State for India. In its original form it was called the Colonial Conference and first met when the Premiers represented their Dominion Governments at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. In 1907, however, owing to its growing importance, its name was changed to the Imperial Conference and it was presided over by the Prime Minister of Great Britain instead of the Secretary of State for the Colonies...
...VICTORIA-Knut Hamsun-Knopf ($1.75). In his most recently translated novel Hamsun turns away from the epic of the land, such as Growth of the Soil, to a love idyl of lingering beauty and sadness. Victoria is in the pensive manner of Wanderers and Dreamers rather than in the more intense mood of Pan. It concerns the love of Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic landowner, for Johannes, the miller's son. There is not much " story" in the accepted sense, but rather a finespun mood of a sensitive girl whose injustice to her lover brings about tragedy...
...antique temple at Potsdam the second anniversary of the death of the late ex-Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was commemorated by a memorial service, at which many members of the royal family were present. Many floral tributes were sent, including one from the ex-Kaiser. All day long Loyalists and Nationalists poured into the building to visit the grave...
...predecessor "Time", appear as flags of truce the animated man has won, not peace, but unhindered activity. He who runs may both read and think, and pick up his ideas on route. His literature he reads in reviews, he listens to the essences of the opera from the Victoria, and he hears the foreign lecturer through the headpiece of his radio while he dictates a purchase order. A file for your fly, he says, that "sate upon the axie-tree of the chariol wheel, and said, "What a dust do I raise...
...Ponsford, a Victoria (Australia) cricketer, broke a world's record of 27 years' standing with an individual batsman's score of 429 in a match against the Tasmania eleven. In the same match the Victorian team raised a world's mark which has stood 22 years when they scored a total of 1,059, every man on the team making double figures...