Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently forgotten all about ships and shipping. Gibbs & Cox designed the world's largest yacht, the Savarona, for the late Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, equipped it as ordered with public-address system, mother-of-pearl inlaid bathrooms, gold-plated doorknobs. They also designed the Santa boats for the Grace Line. But not until the U.S. Government decided to embark on a destroyer program did Gibbs & Cox really get under...
Sopranos Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Grace Moore; Violinists Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz...
...Dear Lord of Courage and Fortitude, if I must have Rheumatism, so help me by Thy divine grace to bear it in such a manner that I do not make every person in the house feel the pain. Give me the grace to refuse to describe over and over again the misery and pangs that belong to me alone. Strengthen in me the desire to get well, that I may not even be tempted to live in the pity and sympathy that is expected to be extended to an invalid. May I remember continually that pains in nerves are multiplied...
Behind the terse announcement from Wadsworth House Saturday that of 964 First Sessioners, only 388 girls will grace the second summer term lie meaningful undercurrents that may never be fully revealed...
...only of American Christians but also of that larger community of Christians which transcends national lines and, even in nations at war, remains unbroken. We do not fail to remember that we are united with our foes by a common humanity and by our common need of divine grace. We renounce hatred and vengeance. . . . That our nation is by no means guiltless of the sins of omission and commission which have made this war, we penitently acknowledge. . . . We do not concede, however, that the responsibility of America and of the United Nations for this war is of a piece with...