Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost half of the people living in the United States are affiliated with no Church or Religious Society . . . Enrich yourself spiritually with the glorious and immortal teachings of the God-man Jesus Christ as those teachings have come through the centuries straight as an arrow to you. Sit back and relax and study the teachings of the Saviour in the quiet and privacy of your home. How? By enrolling today in the free Correspondence Course on the Catholic Religion. No obligation of any kind . . . Your only expense in this interesting and God-given Course is the three-cent stamp...
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...Egyptians fell back on hot words and glorious tales. One Cairo paper issued an extra with a story, completely fabricated, of how a cucumber-laden truck, confiscated by the British, blew up when the hungry Tommies started to unload it, killing 250 men. Handbills crying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" appeared in British camps. Irregular units, fired with bloodthirsty language, popped out all over the delta...
...younger generation seems to drink less. "There is nothing glorious or inglorious any more about getting stewed." says one college professor. Whether youth is more or less promiscuous than it used to be is a matter of disagreement. Fact is that it is less showy about sex. Whatever its immoralities, it commits them on the whole because it enjoys them, and not because it wants to demonstrate against Victorian conventions or shock Babbitt. In that sense, it is far less childish than its parents were. As a whole, it is more sober and conservative, but in individual cases...
Jascha Heifetz, who has appeared with the Boston Symphony on and off since 1919, played the work for which he is perhaps most famous: the Beethoven D major concerto. This glorious composition, generally regarded as THE Violin Concerto, is a perfect fusion of the Classical and the Romantic in music. The collaboration of Heifetz and Munch resulted in a skillful blending of Classic clarity and Romantic richness. Heifetz performed with even greater fluency than in his definitive recording with Toscanini. He played with great insight, and tossed the many cadenza-like passages with uncanny ease...