Word: firmament
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...these days, cocky Walter Reuther might reach out his good little right hand for Phil Murray's job. At 40, he was now the most dazzling light in the C.I.O. firmament...
Grunts, groans, and a sort of gridiron glory will brighten some of the losser luminaries in the College athletic firmament this afternoon when the inter-House football league competition gets underway...
...star shot high in the ecclesiastical firmament of Canada last week. In Ottawa, the Apostolic Delegate announced that the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, Bishop of Three Rivers and the youngest Roman Catholic prelate in the Dominion, had been named by the Pope to head the Dominion's oldest diocese, as eleventh Archbishop of Quebec. He will succeed the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve...
...entirely justified, however, on expressive grounds in the passage that describes chorally God's setting the lights in the firmament. The whole work, indeed, though agreeable for its simplicity and general plainness, would have profited from more of these picturesque set-pieces and less of the rambling recitative that was neither ritualistic in character nor quite naturalistic in its speech inflections...
...constellation in the firmament was the result of another astronomical phenomenon: the shooting-star career of the Lockheed Corp. itself. Thirteen years ago the company was sold for $40,000. Now it had nearly $50,000,000 in working capital. Then, it had only 15 employes. Now it has 32,000. The end of the war, Which had sent most big planemakers into reconversion on a lower key, had not knocked it off its high bracket. Its backlog of orders for planes was perhaps the greatest in the aircraft industry, a thumping...