Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system works only on very short waves, which cannot be received much beyond the horizon. But this does not worry its developer, which has great hopes for P.T.M. Relayed cross-country by parabolic wave reflectors, it may replace expensive and troublesome long-distance telephone wires...
...turn of the century, a restless, energetic young Episcopal monk of the Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, Aug. 20) had an ambition which he knew would cost money: to provide a decent, religious, private-school education for poor boys of good families. He got his Father Superior's permission, then mailed out appeals which would have brought him $250,000 had everybody contributed. He got $300. "Well," sighed Father Frederick Herbert Sill, "if the Lord wants me to start a school...
...nature of Kent's success was not an unmixed pleasure to the fathers of the Holy Cross, whose rules require that they should eat and live for the most part separately from the world, coming from seclusion only to perform certain tasks. When Father Sill's broken health forced him to retire, Holy Cross provided Kent with a successor in young, studious Father William Scott Chalmers, but in 1943 decided to hand grownup, self-sufficient Kent over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting...
Last week Father Chalmers announced a solution that satisfied nearly everybody. Holy Cross would release him from its Order, thus severing its last connection with the school. Then Father Chalmers will join an Anglican Order, the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, which is dedicated as deeply to poverty, chastity and obedience, but requires that every member devote himself to some job. Kent boys would notice only one change: instead of the white robes of his old Order, Father Chalmers will now don a black cassock...
...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...