Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Real victor last week was not General Kundt but Pope Pius XI who did something his predecessor Benedict XV was never able to do through the four years of the Great War. The Papal Nuncio in La Paz persuaded both Bolivia and Paraguay to agree to a 24-hour truce commencing at 10 p. m. Christmas...
...family far from obscure. Of his four brothers, all dead. Joseph, John and Austin were physicians. Brother Austin, eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
...Varsity summary: Score: New Hampshire 22; Harvard 32; Dartmouth 101. Time: 28.56. Winner; Arthur Foote '33, Benedict (NH), Raduazo (NH), Audberg (NH), Glover (NH), J. S. Hayes '33, C. F. Woodard '35, James Parton '34, Ryes (NH), J. P. Scheu '35, A. S. Pier '35, Blood (NH), Reardon (NH), T. A. Robinson '34, Le Preau (D), E. F. Bowditch '35, Wilson (D), J. M. Estabrook '34, Low (NH), Darling (NH), J. W. Higgins '34, Alexander (D), Cole (D), Rolfe (D), Whitney (D), Kempton (D), Russell (D), Ericson...
Negroes venerate especially: the Martyrs of Uganda; St. Benedict the Moor, 16th Century slaveborn monk; and St. Peter Claver, S. J., famed for his work in the early slave markets in Cartagena...
...McDonald Observatory, probably among the Davis Mountains in Jeff Davis County, Tex. Chicago's smart President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Texas' prudent President Harry Yandell Benedict made the deal. Texas will pay for the telescope, buildings, maintenance, and publications. Chicago will pay salaries of the. astronomical staff and will provide special working paraphernalia, such as photographic materials. Director of new McDonald and old Yerkes Observatories is Russian-born-&-educated Dr. Otto Struve, 35, astrophysicist, who last July succeeded his chief, blind Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, as director of Yerkes...