Word: augustine
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...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...
...Augustin Jean Fresnel lost his job as an engineer with the French government in 1815 because he opposed Napoleon's return from Elba. Then he turned his fertile, inventive brain to the problem of getting lighthouses to give more light. Little recognized in his short (1788-1827) life, Fresnel (pronounced Fray-nell) wrought an optical revolution and indirectly saved untold lives by junking the mirrors on which lighthouses had long depended, instead put the light source inside a cylindrical lens with multiple-refracting bands at top and bottom. The resulting Fresnel lens (commonly pronounced Frez-nel) still has many...
Response to the appeal from local alumni has been exceptionally good With $8,543,206 already collected, Augustin H. Parker, Jr. '32, Program chairman for the Boston area, predicted that Boston would exceed its $11,000,000 quota before next June...
...honor their long-dead French colleague. Last week, thanks to their generosity, a statue was unveiled in Vimoutiers for the second time in a century to the glory of the woman who did not discover Camembert cheese. "Marie Harel was a benefactor of humanity!" said Mayor Augustin Gavin, who had helped to dedicate the first statue. "I dare hope that a United States of the World will be formed rapidly and peacefully, modeled after the conquest of the world by Camembert." Said Will Foster, who paid for lunch for about 40 fellow celebrators: "This is the happiest...
Died. John Augustin McNulty, 60, old-time newsman, bar correspondent and gentle troubadour of cabbies, rummies and $2 bettors in Manhattan (Third Avenue, New York) and other places where elbows are bent (A Man Gets Around), veteran sketch writer for The New Yorker; of a heart attack; in Wakefield...