Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have written books are Queen Victoria, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, Dom Luis of Potugal, the Shah, Oscar II of Sweden, Prince Nakita of Montenegro, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and Queen Elizabeth of Roumania; and among princes and princesses who have dabbled in literature are the Princess Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, the two sons of the King of Sweden, the duke of Edinburgh, and the Compte de Paris. But all these are amateurs compared with the Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, who is now editing...
...closing event of the afternoon, '87 got the drop by about three inches. For the five minutes following the result was very uncertain, both teams pulled well and hard, but victory was destined to crown the efforts of '86, and that team won by just three inches. The teams were made up as follows: '86, Pudor, Churchill, Adams, Dewey, anchor; '87. Atwood, Bowen, J. W. Dudley, Litchfield, anchor...
...Arwid Book. Anno 1742." It has been ascertained that Guten is the name of a foundry that was in Gutenburg, Sweden, many years ago, and that "Arwid Book" was the owner of the foundry in 1742. On the reverse side is a peculiar looking monogram surmounted by a crown...
...Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which was received last October. The original castings were an inch or more greater radius than after grinding, and almost innumerable difficulties had to be overcome in order to get a perfectly clear and homogeneous piece of glass of such size...
...flint is entirely ground and polished on one side, but on the other has yet to undergo corrections for diffraction. Whereas it is now slightly convex on this latter side it will have to be ground flat or even a trifle concave, to bring about the desired result. The crown is already ground and is being put through the process of polishing...