Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominican Republic $3,000,000 to build a slaughterhouse, community refrigerators in Ciudad Trujillo, finish a large hotel started by the Government about four years ago. The grant is called a "health" loan. Reason: the refrigeration system will revise a national law which requires all fresh meat to be eaten within two days or thrown away...
...rocky town of Toledo, Painter Theotokopoulos found himself on the rip-roaring crest of the Spanish Inquisition. Gaunt Dominican monks prowled the streets, hunting heretics. Middle-aged St. Theresa, businesslike in her hair shirt, wrote, declaimed, founded convents by the dozen. King Philip II's weedy, emaciated aristocrats, shunning the world with proud incompetence, vain of blood and sharp of feature, were furnishing Miguel de Cervantes with ideas for his best-seller Don Quixote...
...Rosary College in Illinois, she went on with her science studies. In 1930 she took her final vows as a member of the Dominican Sisters, became Sister Mary Jordan Carroll. Dr. George Sped Sperti, famed director of the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, sent word that he had places for two able sisters on his research staff. Sister Mary Jordan Carroll went...
...literature, history, political organization, etc., but in the fall of 1940 it turned up in new dress. So far this year it has concentrated on the present situation of France, to the exclusion of almost all the old material. Professor Andre Morize, Andre Maurois, and Father Ducatillon, a Dominican monk, have given lectures on various phases of beaten and divided France. The hour exams now ask: What is the line of German occupation? What French colonies have joined De Gaulle? and Why does Marshal Petain ask for a return to the soil? Most of the students subscribe to a small...
...Benioff Seismographs, most sensitive of any, at the station on Oak Ridge, Harvard, Mass., have been used by Dr. Lect to study the New England upper crust in collaberation with the Dominican Observatory, Ottawa, Williams College, Weston College, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By measurements of quake waves of both the "Push" and "Throb" variety, Dr. Lect has determined that the New England top layer consists of nine miles of hard granite...