Word: dom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have been, the monster was a benison to the innkeepers of Inverness-shire. Reckoning its value as a tourist attraction at a good ?5,000 a season, the grateful Scots christened the beast Bobby and did everything they could to make him feel at home. In 1937 Dom Basil Wedge, science teacher of a local Benedictine school, reported that Bobby had hatched a brood of progeny. The little monsters, said Dom Basil, had been observed by his pupils, and each measured about three feet. At about this time the press took to calling Bobby Nessie...
...Brazilians date their independence from Sept. 7, 1822, when Braganza Prince Dom Pedro tore up Portuguese crown orders to return to Lisbon, proclaimed Brazil a free and independent nation...
...There are nine orders of men in the Church of England. Dom Gregory's Benedictines, all bearing the Benedictine title of Dom, from Dominus (master), number 30-odd members in Britain...
Ordinary People. At his demonstration Mass, Dom Gregory explains the primitive Communion as it was celebrated by a bishop, deacons, priests and congregation. Each member brought his own piece of bread and small portion of wine. The bishop and priests then consecrated all the bread and wine. At the end, the congregation filed by and took Communion under both forms, saving some of the bread to carry home so that they could take Communion by themselves during the week...
...Last Supper," says Dom Gregory, "Jesus was performing the ordinary Jewish method of saying grace. He performed the usual four actions before supper and the usual three actions after. He took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it; He took the cup of wine, blessed it and passed it around. But at this last supper, He told those with Him to do this accustomed thing with a slightly new meaning-'This is My Body which is for you. Do this for the recalling...