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...When the moment came to partake of the consecrated wafer, 300 priests and monks distributed it in the vast crowd. Impressed by this gigantic act of faith, Cardinal Pacelli exclaimed: "This is heaven!" Afterwards, efficient nuns briskly served the children with hot chocolate and cakes. When the four Cardinals beheld this, they too wished to break their fast. Thereupon hot chocolate and cakes were served them on their thrones. Next day was Columbus Day, celebrated in Latin America as ''The Day of the Race." In honor of the Eucharistic Congress the customary soccer games and races were called...
After an hour of prayers the people beheld the dark mass grow soft, turn red, increase in volume, bubble into a liquid. "Il miracolo e fatto!" cried the officiant. ''The miracle is made!" The choir sang a Te Deum. The worshippers scrambled up to the altar rail to kiss the reliquary. Outside sounded a nine-gun salute...
Such up-to-date contrivances are by no means common in U. S. schools. But last week parents, teachers and school officials could visualize them as they beheld in Manhattan's big Port Authority Commerce Building an exposition of school-wares. Called Schoolmart and paired with a routine conference of pedagogs labeled Schoolview, the exposition was sponsored by the National Association of Public School Business Officials. Teachers College, New York University's School of Education and numerous high-sounding committees. This week 500 members of N. A. P. S. B. O. were to gather at Schoolmart for their...
...Russians beheld the arrival upside down in Leningrad last week of U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt as the government plane, piloted from Moscow by the U. S. military attache, nosed over on landing and left both men hanging heels over heads from their safety straps. First news of this event reached President Roosevelt in an Ambassadorial cable: "PLANE LANDED UPSIDE DOWN BUT WE EMERGED RIGHT SIDE UP. TRUST NO ONE HAS REPORTED TO YOU THAT WE ARE DEAD...
...usual but it was not to be. They deemed that this would be a good chance to get the author of "Anthony Adverse" which is still the country's best-seller, to autograph the House Library's copy, and it would also be a courteous gesture. But, is and beheld, there was no copy to be found. The thing went along for a while and the House Committee confidently fait that some generous member of the House would make the contribution...