Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...During the reign of Henry III, 'to wound, maym or kill a fairy' was punishable by death...
...first year of King Franklin's I reign in 1933 the Crimson produced a 19 to 6 triumph, but went into hibernation for the next three years, those marked by the presence of an end named Kelley at New Haven, as the Elis were on the top end of 14 to 0, 14 to 6, and 14 to 13 scores. Harvard retaliated in 1927 by upsetting Clint Frank's undefeated team 13 to 6, Frank Foley making the winning run. A miracle pass catch by Torbey MacDonald won a 7 to 0 mud battle for the Crimson...
...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
Showa is the name which Hirohito chose to typify his reign: it means Radiant Peace. Last week's celebration, coming at a time distinctly wanting in peace, gave Japan's men of influence occasion to consider the Japanese Empire carefully. They knew it as a sum total of many factors: a set of islands where 70,000,000 people live almost literally elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles...
...Dukhobors ("spirit-wrestlers") congealed as a sect about 1700 in the reign of Peter the Great. By obeying only the "voice of God within," they sought to live in harmony, achieve Utopia. They soon developed a theocracy which, though as narrow as the Tsar's and Orthodoxy's, was at least of their own choosing. After generations of persecution, they were exiled en masse to Caucasia...