a group of eleven midwestern US universities who compete with each other in sports. These teams are of very good quality in college sports, and their players often go on to join professional teams
according to the Old Testament of the Bible, the set of rules that God gave to MOSES on Mount Sinai, in order to tell people how they should behave. They are supposed to have been written on two stone TABLET s (= flat pieces of stone) and they appear in the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religions. The ten rules include 'Thou shalt not kill' and 'Thou shalt not steal'.
(1919) a book by the US JOURNALIST John Reed about the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1917. Reed was himself in St Petersburg during the Revolution, and actively supported it.