Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pieces of Persian pottery of all periods from 4000 B. C. to the present, 4) the most perfect specimens of Persian velvet known to modern times, 5) a newly discovered 14th-Century illuminated Shah-Nameh ("Book of Kings"), containing the only known portrait of the famous Mongol conqueror Tamerlane...
...college's trim, stately campus back in the 18505, introduced the sport, and up to 1925 Haverford regularly sent teams to compete on England's playing fields. By English standards, Haverford's cricket has never been of a very high order. When the British cruiser Exeter (conqueror of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee-TIME, Dec. 25) put into Philadelphia last spring, its tarry cricketers bowled over the Haverfords with ease. The Haverfords consoled themselves by trimming a motley team from Princeton...
...Newfoundland, one from Bermuda. Unknown to the Germans, the British Navy was then embarrassed by the absence of two battle cruisers in the South Atlantic, chasing Admiral Count Spee's squadron. Also unavailable were the battleship King George V, which was in dock for repairs, and the battleships Conqueror and Monarch, which had collided. Assigned to escort the 1914 Canadians were (besides cruisers and destroyers) the antique battleships Glory and Majestic. For the sake of Canadian good will, Admiral Jellicoe grudgingly added the battle cruiser Princess Royal, but only he and the Canadians' commander in chief, Major General...