Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adam* chairs to an Adam table in the five-windowed dining-room decorated in rose tapestry paper, ate their first meal in the temporary White House. Fifty-eight guests could easily have dined there with them. For a more festive night they left the pink and white Louis XIV ballroom across the hall, with its balcony, fireplace and paintings by many masters...
...cogitations and conferences came, by easy mental association, the name of René Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle. The Cadillac, General Motors' pride, had been named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who in the 18th Century established Detroit. He was King Louis XIV's Governor of Louisiana Territory, but the man who had explored and named that territory a few years before was the intrepid, swashbuckling Sieur de LaSalle. In his name were connotations of reverence, dash, finesse. Therefore the new General Motors car is called the LaSalle...
...Latin 7 hf Sever 18 Physiology 3 Emerson J Psychology 12a Emerson J 2 P.M. (XVIII) Comp. Philology 2a hf. Harvard 5 Engin. Sciences 3 Pierce 302, 307 German B Harvard 5 German 13 Harvard 5 History 49 hf Harvard 5 Semitic 14 Harvard 5 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. (XIV) Comp. Literature 8 Sever 5 Comp. Literature 13 Emerson D Comp. Literature 22 Sever 11 Economics B Harvard 5, 6 English E Emerson D English 78 Memorial Hall Fine Arts 4a Robnson Hall Fine Arts 5n Fogg Lect. R. Government 17a New Lect. Hall Government 18a Sever 20, 23 Greek...
...border that charmed Leopold, that man of peace. He spent most of his life directing wars against Louis XIV, but he disliked soldiers, particularly his own, never visited a battlefield, and was embarrassed by maneuvers. The rug hung over his bed in an elaborate and jejune country place to which he retired for meditation and amour. It is said that two violin players, blindfolded with black silk handkerchiefs, fiddled at the head and foot of the bed while he was taking his pleasure. He died in 1705 and the rug passed through the estates of a series of princes. Connoisseurs...
...Consult Professor PopeFRENCHA Wed. at 3 Emerson DB Wed. at 12 Sever A1 I, II Th. at 11 Sever 351 III, IV Th. at 12 Sever 351 V, VI Wed. at 1 Sever 62 I, II Wed. at 9 Sever 302 III-VIII Wed. at 10 Sever 352 IX-XIV Wed. at 11 Emerson D2 XV-XVII Wed. at 1 Sever 173 Wed. at 1 Sever 114 Wed. at 2 Sever 196 Th. at 10 Harvard 67 Wed. at 11 Emerson J9 Wed. at 10 Harvard 113hf* Sat., Oct. 2 at 10 Sever 614* Consult Professor Hawkins16...