Word: gratia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions and prophetical calculations, which in this case so pitifully deceived them. It were better that they should look upon such things in which the Class of 1961 has excelled, such as (exempla gratia) football and crew. Furthermore, as Ecclesiastes warned, much study is a weariness of the flesh (12:12), and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (1:18). And, as St. Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate...
...selling, satirical commercial had been tried before, and except for a few engaging specimens such as Bert and Harry Piel of Piel's Beer, had fallen into limbo. Stan was undeterred. Incorporating himself in Los Angeles as Freberg, Ltd. ("but not very"), he took a Latin motto ("Ars gratia pecuniae"-Art for money's sake) and put his talents on the market ("bizarre sales ideas, at a bizarre fee; but worth...
...spent a tour of duty in Japan, few failed to load up on souvenirs. But only a handful of Americans realized what a collector's paradise was within their reach. Among the enthusiastic exceptions are the two Hauge brothers, Victor and Osborne, who with Osborne's wife Gratia were sent to Tokyo at the end of World War II, promptly fell in love with oriental ways and decided that the key to the mysterious East...
...Hauges, who had free Government housing and low living expenses, put in 70% of their salaries to build their collection. Says Gratia: "We were always broke." But today Victor Hauge is the proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...
...Gratia Artis. In Louth. England, Office Worker Gordon Goddard was fined $14 and costs for counterfeiting, in spite of his barrister's explanation that he forged ?5 notes because they "presented a challenge to him as an artist...