Word: dominion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced to withdraw his puffins and to have British stamps on Lundy mail along with his own. But the puffins remain profitable tourist items, and neither Martin Harman nor his son Albion, the present lord, ever officially conceded that the island is anything less than a "self-governing dominion...
...eminence, one complaint might be made against the Vienna Philharmonic: it plays too little modern music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky: "Our dominion, with our sound, is Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and the classics; at this we are good. Perhaps American orchestras can play some of the newer music better...
...review of the book Edison, by Matthew Josephson, in your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent...
...given dominion over the beasts of the earth. Man knows how the beasts reproduce. Because he knows better, man controls his own number of children, so he can have a family instead of a herd, a flock or a litter...
Determined, like her cousin Queen Elizabeth to bind the British commonwealth by charm, blue-eyed Princess Alexandra, 22, made her first official visit without her mother, the Duchess of Kent, to an overseas dominion-Australia. After spending three weeks trudging up and down the continent, she demonstrated her famed light touch by taking off her shoes to walk barefoot across the sands of Lindeman Island, off Australia's east coast...