Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught to read when 3, how "the multiplication table and French verbs were repeated whilst holding a backboard* and with our feet in the stocks,* which were made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father...
...Palace of Versailles, holding his staff of office. In a loud voice he cried to ) the people: "The King is dead." Then he broke his staff, threw the pieces away, took another from a waiting attendant, cried: "Long Live the King!" In this way was the death of Louis XIV and the succession of Louis XV made known...
...Sever 17, 18 Latin 1 Sever 14 Mathematics 2 II Sever 23, 24 Mathematics 5a Harvard 5 Music 3a Glee Club Rm. Philosophy 7 Emerson A Philosophy 8 Emerson A Philosophy 24a Sever 30 Physics 4c Sever 30 Semitic 13 Sever 29 Spanish 5 Emerson F SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 (XIV) Classical Philology Sever 30 Comp. Literature 8 Sever 29 Comp. Literature 22 Emerson D Economics 9a Sever 5 English E Sever 30 English 7 Zool. Lect. Rm. Geol. Lect. Rm. Sem. Mus. Fine Arts 4a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 5n Fogg Lect. Rm. French I, IV, V, VI Harvard...
...England, making the alliance a three-cornered one. Behind the figure of M. Hymans stands the energizing force of France, eager, even anxious, to perpetuate the old Entente. Always jealous of foreign influence over Belgium. England has viewed the Franco-Belgian alliance with suspicion. Haunting memories of Louis XIV persist like Marley's ghost. Since the new head of the Foreign Office, Austen Chamberlain, is said to favor such a Triple Entente, the proposal is opportune, and naturally emanates from Belgium...
Those who have gazed at the tall spire of the Strasbourg Cathedral, shrouded in Gothic mystery, remember that this is the place where Goethe received his education. They will remember that the Provinces were, until the time of Louis XIV, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, that from 1871 until 1918 they were part of the old German Empire. Gazing around the streets, these people will find German signs faintly obliterated by French; they will become conscious every now and then that German is being spoken by the passerby. The opponents of M. Herriot ask: "How can a country...