Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the delegates disbanded in high spirits. Said Walter Reuther with deep satisfaction: "This is the most serious and most constructive convention we ever had." A Ford strike was now a definite possibility...
...what overall purpose does Masonry exist? In the high words of Roscoe Pound, onetime dean of the Harvard Law School and ex-Deputy Grand Master of the Massachusetts Masonic Grand Lodge, its end is "to preserve, to develop and transmit to posterity the civilization we have inherited . . . Wherever in the world there is a lodge of Masons, there should be a focus of civilization, a center of the idea of universality, radiating reason...
...including a temple in Honolulu to which he will go in September on a chartered ship, accompanied by 600 of his brethren (if the Honolulu dock strike is over). The Shrine puts up $12,000 for his year's expenses, but tips, entertaining and other odds & ends will probably leave him some $50,000 out of pocket by the end of his year. The job of Imperial Potentate is not only for good men, but for men who are well-heeled...
...Cannot Serve." The Vatican was well aware that the excommunication decree might cause some Catholics to leave the church. It had to balance this risk against one it considered greater: the confusion that resulted in two opposing allegiances that could not, in the end, be reconciled...
...much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent not shaving...