Word: 33rd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1825ky Larking, Mrs. Ethel Mars's two-year-old colt: the 33rd running of the Hopeful Stakes, richest ($31,450 to the winner) race of the Saratoga season; by three lengths over a field of top-notch juveniles; before a closing-day crowd of 20,000; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Bespectacled Stanley Wooderson. London bank clerk: a special mile race in 4:06.6, breaking the world's record of 4:06.8 set by Kansas' Glenn Cunningham at Princeton in 1934; to become the first Englishman in 55 years to set a new world...
...Permanent Committee of the Perpetual International Eucharistic Congress. Since 1881, under the guidance of this Committee, 32 great gatherings of Catholics had been held, as religious demonstrations against secularization, in such great cities as London, Chicago, Sydney, Buenos Aires, in such holy places as Lourdes and Jerusalem. The 33rd Eucharistic Congress, agreed the Committee and Pope Pius XI, would go to Manila in the Philippines, "Pearl of the Orient" not only to travel agents but, in the most spiritual sense, to the Church which shepherds 82% of its 18,000,000 souls, proudly claims them as the only Christian nation...
Bells & Whistles-No other church on earth has the taste for pomp of the Roman Catholic Church, or possesses such a world-wide organization geared to deck a city with yellow-&-white flags, provide a week-long demonstration by happy, enthusiastic masses. The Committees of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress included even a Committee on Bells & Whistles, and last week when the Conte Rosso ploughed into Manila Bay all the bells in the city, all the craft in the Bay, including 15 "floating hotels" for Congress pilgrims, set up a prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta...
Crowds & Rain, During the planning of the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress, its officials were at pains to announce that, according to the Manila Weather Bureau, there had never been a typhoon during February, and during its first ten days there had been rain in only 47 out of 69 years. On the Luneta, on which there had been erected a tall, glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided...
...Christmas time what was being printed about him, he ex- claimed: "I must get up, sit on the sedia gestatoria and bless the pilgrims." Last week when few doctors could find any reason for long-term optimism, word went out that the Pope plans to address by radio the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress in Manila...