Word: devoutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal professor who taught that "free enterprise is the essence." One of his most vivid memories is the postwar inflation, which wiped out his parents' savings, became so bad that it took a wheelbarrow full of marks to buy a suit of clothes. The experience made him a devout believer in the sound mark. His wife still remembers their marriage in 1923 as taking place "ten days after the currency reform," which replaced the worthless mark with...
Chundrigar, a devout Moslem lawyer who keeps his wife in purdah, is the leader of the once powerful Moslem League, which had been reduced to near impotence when Mirza drew many of its former supporters into his Republican Party. As Prime Minister, Chundrigar will be dependent on the votes of the Republicans and the will of the President. He will also serve the purpose of keeping out of office Suhrawardy, the only man with a popular following that rivals Mirza...
...students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...
...welcome back their revered altar, 6,000 devout Poles thronged the 13th century Roman Catholic church and the small square outside one day in August while a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in Christendom, but the greatest masterpiece carved by Veit Stoss, the German sculptor who. along with his younger contemporaries Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. brought the art of the Middle Ages to its great and final climax...
...dark-eyed, black-haired bachelor king's search for a wife and Queen was further circumscribed by the requirement that she be of noble birth and a devout Moslem. An early attempt to announce his troth-to a five-year-old daughter of Egypt's King Farouk-was abandoned almost as soon as it was considered; the latest attempt to marry him to a daughter of Morocco's King Mohammed V was given up last winter. Reasons: her Moroccan Arabic was almost incomprehensible to an Iraqi, and besides, she was no blonde. This summer 22-year...