Word: dom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slight Englishman with penetrating eyes and close-cropped, greying hair is hard at work this week lecturing and conducting a retreat at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. Few of Hobart's students have ever before seen anything quite like Dom Gregory Dix. For one thing, he is a monk of the Benedictine order in the Church of England.* For another, he is a scholar who began specializing in military diplomacy and became one of the world's leading experts on Christian liturgy...
...persuasive, lucid speaker, Dom Gregory is lecturing on the primitive church at Hobart, as he will at numerous other U.S. universities and Episcopalian centers during the next six months. Wherever there is time for him to train assistants, he will also conduct a demonstration of the Mass as it was performed in approximately 200 A.D. Such Dix demonstrations aim to make Communion meaningful to Christians for whom it has been a beautiful but meaningless fossil of antique forms...
Rhode Island's freshmen eked out a one-point win over the Crimson, 36 to 37, with the Crusaders' '54 scoring 49. Ram Dom Mitchrony just nipped Yardling Emil San Souci in the last quarter-mile by 3.5 seconds, with Harvard's Hubert Maguire finishing third. Hal Gerry placed fifth, Bruce Phillips ninth, and Leo Carroll seventeenth, to round out the Crimson scorers. The freshman course was about three miles, with average times...
...lead-off man Clyde Volimer, replacing injured Dom Dimaggio in center field, faced St. Louis pitchers eight times in as many innings, for a modern mark...
While a military band played brassy jazz, Provost Buck and visiting official-dom inspected the drawn-up forces and a Marine complained to bystanders that "the dumb Army is too far over. They're crowding the Navy battalion...