Word: representation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The King of Great Britain, feeling the need of friends and funds, sent a letter: "To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greetings! Whereas it appears to us expedient to nominate some person of wisdom, loyalty, diligence and circumspection to represent us ... know ye that we, reposing...
Dean Bender will address the Student Council's first meeting of the year at 7 p.m. tonight in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House. He will represent the College Administration during the discussion of Council policies for the coming two terms.
Here was a problem to intrigue the metaphysical-minded Melville: Was the white whale an agent of nature repelling man's attacks? Or was he perhaps a symbol of man's own rebellious instincts? Melville hardly cared. For him the whale came to represent whatever it is that...
Levelheaded readers will grin at these and other ancient beliefs, which London Daily Mirror Columnists Edwin and Mona Radford have catalogued in their Encyclopaedia of Superstitions. Anyone who touches wood to forestall bad luck, or avoids walking under ladders, or refuses to light three cigarettes on a match, is not...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their...