Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They didn't get much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall, other Fisk buildings...
...conniving Englishman who behaves like a sinister city slicker out of a Class B Western. His one thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister Chamberlain (Gustav Griindgens). Throughout the film only two nations befriend the Boers-The Netherlands and Germany...
...white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...
...They had a 20-ft. claim on the richest part of the lode, and at one time were taking $18,000 a week out of it. They built a mansion with solid silver doorknobs, made a trip to Europe to get furniture, tried to get an interview with Queen Victoria...
TIME, Feb. 24, slips when it says that the two daughters of Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, "by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity are carriers themselves." Actually, each of them has a 50-50 chance of being free of the taint. Victoria Eugenia is a carrier having one normal X chromosome and one X carrying the hemophilia gene. Each of her children, sons and daughters alike, received one of these chromosomes and for each of them it was a 50-50 chance which one they got. If they inherited her normal X chromosome they are as free from...