Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leverett House Junior Common Room, more than thirty members of the new group chose an executive board of five from a slate of seven nominees. In addition to Alden, those elected were: as Secretary-Treasurer, Warren Vander Maas '49; as members-at-large, Rudolf A. M. Roemer '49, Burton Benedict '45, and Charles M. Zane...
William A. West '49 will play the lead role of Dr. Stockman, director Ted Allegretti '47 revealed, while John L. Hedges '48 and Edward L. Benedict '46 were assigned respectively to the parts of Peter Stockman and Hovstad...
...Roman Catholics to task for the same sort of laxity. Now they had to eat their words: two Episcopal clergymen had just married divorcees -in church, with the permission of their bishops. The brides & grooms: thrice-married Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt Winsor, first wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and the Rev. Benedict H. Hanson of Baltimore; Isabelle W. Morrill and the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, ex-dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit...
...There used to be another state called Georgia, but that was away back in history days. . . . The history of America is short and easy to remember. There have been two internal wars: a dull skirmish with the English about tea, which was all right once they got rid of Benedict Arnold, and a really dressy struggle between the North and the South. The North won, and were right, but the South, who lost, were nicer. After that, nothing happened until . . . some people called doughboys went to Europe and won a war. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor...
...Benedict teaches us another truth often proclaimed, seldom practiced today -that human labor is not something ignoble . . . but a thing that should be loved as something worthy and welcome. The life of work, whether in fields or workshops or intellectual occupations, does not degrade but ennobles men . . . turns them not into slaves but masters and molders of substances surrounding them. . . . Hence all ... must consider that they are serving not only themselves but also the existence and well-being of the whole of civilized society . . . that they work not through compulsion but from love...