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Word: vii (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highest paid: Britain's George VI, with $1,148,000. Denmark's Frederik IX gets $296,671; The Netherlands' Juliana, $263,158; Greece's Paul I, $230,000; Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, $146,000; Norway's Haakon VII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

Handsome Dan VII (no relation), only nine months old but wrinkled and bowlegged for his age, now trots around at the heels of Herman Hickman. One of the gentlest dogs in New Haven, Dan only gets excited on Saturday afternoons when other strange animals invade the Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Eli Bulldog Barked at Opponents In 1890; Second Licked Harvard's Feet | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...VII is the nephew of his predecessor and is also a blue-blood. His upswept nose and parenthetical legs will carry the hopes of thousands of Sons of the Blue today into his first Harvard-Yale contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Eli Bulldog Barked at Opponents In 1890; Second Licked Harvard's Feet | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...neck than any artist since has been able to show in a head-on view. But Goya patched up a personal peace with the victors, painted them, as he had the Bourbons before them, and as he was later to paint Wellington and the restored monarchy of Ferdinand VII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rocky Genius | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...prisoner in the Tower of London, publicly confessing that he is a mere impostor and not the Duke of York at all. Shrewd Henry VII suspects a deeper, secret truth: that Pierre is really a bastard son of the Duchess of Burgundy and the Bishop of Cambrai. Thus, as the proud, yellow-haired pretender is led to the gallows and his bride languishes an unwilling attendant at Henry's court, it may be that Pierre has the Plantagenet blood in him after all. But everybody is too exhausted to care much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Rhubarb | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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