Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at New York's Polo Grounds Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs, as a last gesture before taking over the boxing franchise of the great Madison Square Garden, staged fights for four champions instead of three-all on one night. Into the ring to grace this Carnival of Champions climbed Heavyweight Joe Louis to shake hands with his most recent opponent, Tommy Farr. But Champion Joe Louis, Mike Jacobs' star attraction, did not fight that night for the paying customers...
Against this background Philip's virtues were bound to make a brilliant showing. Possessed of great personal grace, gentle, straightforward, courageous, scholarly, witty, accomplished at tennis, dancing, horsemanship, his only imperfection appears not yet to have been discovered. Traveling abroad between the ages of 17 and 20, young Sidney captivated royalty, diplomats, scholars; the only criticism voiced was that he drank too much water, ate too much fresh fruit. In Paris, as guest of Francis Walsingham (later head of England's unexampled secret service, and Philip's future father-in-law) Philip witnessed the slaughter...
Photographs leading to this finding were taken from an airplane in the substratosphere off the coast of Peru during the eclipse of June 8, under the direction of Army Major Albert W. Stevens, famous stratosphere explorer and member of the Hayden Planetarium-Grace eclipse expedition...
Major Stevens' important results were unexpected and essentially accidental. As one of the many field workers in the Hayden Planetarium-Grace expedition, directed by Dr. Clyde Fisher, of the Hayden Planetarium, New York, Major Stevens was primarily interested in getting high enough to photograph the spectacular course of the moon's shadow as it raced along the earth and cloud tops. His observations were made near Lima, Peru, in a Pan American Grace Airways plane...
...very middle of Asia," later held in custody in Aqsu. Serafimov had spent a winter in a particularly colorful environment of Asiatic depravity, had fallen in love with a haggard Russian prostitute and, having finally touched the lowest depth of despair and loneliness, had attained a lasting state of grace by strangling a companion fugitive...