Word: franciscans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevailing Trade Winds. MacFarlane set out in his 48-ft. schooner La Paloma to prove that this was no great problem. Arriving safely at San Francisco on April 19, 1906, he was irked because there was no reception committee. Finally he spied a friend. "Hello, Mac," said the San Franciscan, "Isn't this terrible...
...they jogged around Princeton's sun-baked track in the first lap of the Amateur Athletic Union's 1,500-metre championship run. Suddenly a tiny group intent on the pole vault let out a roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back again on Palmer Stadium's uncomfortable cement seats, the 1,.500-metre race was over. First, in the mediocre...
...Denver Post. To him, Catholicism was occasional newspaper material. To his Catholic Wife Belle and his Catholic Daughter May, however, the solace of the Mass was real. Last week Daughter May (Mrs. Clyde Berryman) gave $150,000 to the diocese of Denver to enlarge and rebuild a Franciscan monastery...
...court battle over their mother's estate, is famed in Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
Statesman Paredes answered his San Franciscan countrymen with restraint : He believed the judge had not meant to call all Filipinos savages-"but there are savages everywhere." Finally he urged his com patriots to "avoid occasions for rebuke" and sent a copy of his reply to Judge Lazarus accompanied by a note saying, "I cannot believe that you had in any way in tended to refer to my people as a whole...