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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans were drawn by Pellegrino Tibaldi. They were considered impossibly sumptuous, but the Holy Father said: "We do not ignore the grave difficulties of the work, but considering its great necessity, we trust and shall always continue to trust in Divine Providence, which will not abandon us. ... It is a great imprudence to allow oneself to be conquered by the first difficulties; and in works having to do with divine worship, we must begin with great magnificence, leaving to posterity and above all to Divine Providence, the task of completing them...
...comic section artists have been wont to give, and few others have thought of it philosophically at all. Its devastating effect on family life has become traditional enough to make "golf widow" a picturesque term, and of course, it is well-known that professional men, especially doctors, commonly abandon their patients or clients for the links...
...enlightening facts. American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered-experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ships are now being built. The French, on the other hand, are likely to abandon all their work in such craft, concentrat- ing on supremacy in airplanes...
This question was part of an appeal to abandon devotion to "outworn and discredited capitalism," made by Norman Thomas, chairman of the League for Industrial Democracy, in the debate on Socialism held at the Liberal Club Saturday night. Mr. Thomas' opponent, supporter of capitalism, was Professor J. Murray Carroll of Bates College. The debate was the feature of Saturday's session of the New England Student Conference, which was held here during the week-end under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...deserving and punishment to the wicked. The second course involves a rather different line of reasoning. This, naturally is the recognition of Russia, with everything that would go with it. Its supporters argue that in dealing with other nations, Russia would be forced to adopt their methods and abandon her own; that the influx of foreign capital would necessarily make Russia conservative economically; that an uncorked bottle is less likely to explode than a corked...