Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story that Brother Andre had visited the Archbishop of Montreal, convinced him of his supernatural powers by paralyzing the prelate's limbs. Devout Catholics gave more & more money which enabled Brother Andre to build first a small chapel, then a bigger one, finally, with $2,000,000, to begin work on a great Oratory of St. Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned as a granite and limestone cruciform basilica, topped by a 95-ft. dome. To its completed crypt go from 5,000 to 10,000 people on ordinary days...
...John Wanamaker's store. The company was promising its first customers delivery by June 1. National Houses, Inc., a competitor, announced that it hoped to have 10,000 prefabricated houses to sell during the next twelvemonth. Though it will be months, perhaps years, before U. S. travelers begin to see prefabricated houses springing up in any numbers along the roadsides, the design and equipment of such houses was by last week sufficiently complete to give the public some idea of what its grandchildren may live...
...trouble with educating U. S. immigrants is that after they learn the language some of them begin to think in it. Some even take to writing. And their foster-tongued thoughts are not always flattering to U. S. complacence. Immigrant Louis Adamic, from the Austrian province of Carniola (now part of Yugoslavia), still writes English with a slight accent but he thinks U. S. thoughts with disturbing clarity. How the U. S. looks to foreigners who are trying to become patriated is the subject of his latest book, Grandsons...
Broadcasting this afternoon from WNAC, the Debating Council will clash with the Edward Quinn Debating Society on the subject "Resolved: That generous pensions by given by the federal government to the aged," The debate will begin at 3 o'clock and last for one hour...
...select any single individual for special honors is impossible. Five or six members of the cast, the chorus, the composers, the directors and last but not least, the author have all contributed to the satisfying moments. Unfortunately, we must begin somewhere. William Hunt, as Dean Bounce, made University Hall consistently more cheerful than it is reported to be under its present staff, though possibly, the Pudding Dean cannot manage a bender with quite the incumbent grace. Gaspar Bacon, as Yankee Joe, brought forth great admiration for his clever dancing in the radium paint number. Mrs. Murphy or Lawrence Nichols dominated...