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novice nun who discovers that her wing-shaped cornet, mirabile dictu, is a perfect airfoil. The show will be cut to half an hour once Sister Bertrille gets airborne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Sep. 8, 1967 | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...wish I could be so enthusiastic about the rest of the concert. Mozart's 29th Symphoney suffered from out-of-tune high notes by the violins. The horns nearly saved the day with, mirabile dictu, a splendid performance--until the very end, when an ascending passage brought on the inevitable...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 3/7/1966 | See Source »

...academic year was calm, the athletic year was not. In their senior year the class of 1938 at last beat Princeton, 34-6, and--mirabile dictu-Dock Harlow's machine rallied past Yale in the snow and the rain, 13-6, When Frank Foley scored the tie-breaking touchdown...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr. and Max Byrd, S | Title: Class of 1938 Distinguishes Itself in Riots, Public Life | 6/10/1963 | See Source »

...runs by .161 batters, and home run sluggers who can't run or bend over, they have flirted with the idea of entering the first division. Under new manager Johnny Pesky, many wonderful changes have been made. For example, the Sox now run onto the filed. In fact, mirabile dictu, most of this New Breed even run out infield grounders. The effect of this unaccustomed strain is, as yet, undetermined. But, many old, seasoned observers fear that it may prove disastrous...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: The Weekend Sports Scene . . . | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...many members of the Bureau of International Expositions that Seattle is not a part of Washington. D.C. As world's fairs go, Seattle's is compact and modest: it covers only 72 acres v. Brussels' 500 and New York's projected 646. And, mirabile dictu, it was nearly 98% completed when opened-a boast that few world's fairs have been able to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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