Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This ancient body (founded in 1562), devoted to the spread of religious teaching, did not reach the U. S. until 1903, did not hold annual meetings in the U. S. until four years ago. Last week 5,000 Catholics gathered in Hartford, Conn, for the Confraternity's Catechetical Congress - so called because catechetical is the adjectival form of catechism, which means teaching. At the Congress were introduced two new aids to Catholic teaching: a revised catechism, a gospel newly put into English...
...hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food and medicines by airplane...
Born. To Peggy Conklin, 29, sometime cinemactress (The President Vanishes), stage star (The Petrified Forest; Yes, My Darling Daughter), and her Manhattan broker husband, James Daniel Thompson: their first child, a daughter; in Greenwich, Conn...
David Monahan, of Bridgeport, Conn., as Assistant Surgical Adviser...
Stopping first at New Haven, Conn., to pick up the Yale students making the cruise the ships then proceeded direct to Havana, Cuba for a three day visit. On the tip down all students carried out a detailed schedule of daily training, witnessed fueling a destroyer at sea, search-light demonstrations and the running of a man-of-war in its entirely including engineering, navigation and communications. They were able to put into practice many of the things learned in the classrooms here and in addition were able to get a first hand picture of life aboard...