Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reign of the Emperor Valentinian, there occurred in an obscure part of the heavens, an explosion to which the eruption of Vesuvius was but as the striking of a match. Columbus discovered America and Washington fought the Revolution in complete ignorance of the cataclysm. Not until the year of grace 1934 did J. P. M. Prentice of Stowmarket, England, first observe the results of the convulsion, known to men as Nova Herculis. Over 10,000 observations of its progress have been made since, according to Leon Campbell instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory...
...descended from his private car in the streets of Warm Springs, Ga. Henry N. Hooper, manager of the Warm Springs Foundation, was on hand to welcome him. A CCC band struck up a tune, and the President drove off accompanied by his personal secretaries Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand and Grace Tully, past the Foundation where crippled children were lined up in wheelchairs to wave to him, on up the road to the Little White House on the slopes of Pine Mountain where Daisy McAffee was cooking his dinner...
Crumbling, sleazy, disused, the Greek Royal Palace was found last week to contain no bed in which George II by the Grace of God King of the Hellenes could possibly be expected to sleep...
widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip (TIME, Nov. 25); Daughter-in-Law Mrs. Grace Lockwood Roosevelt, of appendicitis; Granddaughter Sarah Alden Derby, of "rundown condition" following an appendix operation last spring; all on the same floor of a Glen Cove, L. I., hospital...
...portraits are notable for the expression which he put into them. Several are of his wife, Saskia, who died in 1642. His landscapes show a grace uncommon to most etchings, especially in the trees and clouds. It is perhaps due to this experience in nature that he succeeded in putting so much life into his biblical representations. Instead of following the old tradition of showing a pale saint gazing lifelessly towards Heaven, he has chosen subjects such as "Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels," "Christ Driving Out Money Changers from the Temple," and "Christ Healing the Sick." The last is also...