Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case in point is the joint Liberal Union-Ivy Films petition soon to grace Dean Watson's desk. The Dean will be asked to regulate all undergraduate movies--to require registration of films slated for a run at Harvard and to enforce by College authority a first-come-first-rights rule in case of scheduling conflicts. This might seem like too much paternalism even for the Deans, but, considering University Four's past actions, this may not be the case...
...Joyce Gary-Prisoner of Grace...
Some 80 years ago, a German dogcatcher named Louis Dobermann determined to breed a new strain of dog that would combine the agility of a terrier, the strength of a shepherd and the grace of a greyhound. Assisted by two friends, a gravedigger and a bell ringer, Dobermann interbred pinschers, shepherds, rottweilers and black and tan terriers, to get an intelligent, powerful new breed that won distinction as a war dog in both World Wars and as a "seeing eye" for the blind...
Died. Richard Ranney Adams, 58 president since 1945 of Grace Line (one of the first and biggest U.S.-Latin America shippers-23 vessels), authority on ship design and construction; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...Pitfalls & the Miracle. Even after a minister has mastered the fact that preaching should be an act of grace, Dr. Coffin admits, there are many technical pitfalls. Wide and averagely educated audiences must be held by simple, graphic language. ("A minister has to expurgate his vocabulary of ... words . . . such as 'expurgate.'") A good way to learn: try preaching to children or casual audiences. ("Nothing would be more educational for most ministers than to be asked to address chance audiences on street corners.") At the same time, warns Preacher Coffin, there are all too few pulpits today which...