Word: jesuitically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these vigorous words the president of America's biggest Roman Catholic university last week admitted publicly that he had been wrong-something that President Roosevelt himself has never done except about Thanksgiving. The author of this graceful admission is that urbanely dogmatic Jesuit, the very square-jawed Very Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon S.J., who made it to his own students at the formal opening of Fordham's joist academic year...
...sealed into the new high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan last Saturday. In the reliquary were bone fragments of each of the twelve Apostles, of St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Rose of Lima (the first American saint) and three Jesuit saints martyred by the Iroquois in 1649. They came straight from Rome, where a special department of the Vatican authenticates relics of the saints and sends them with proper attestation wherever new altars are needed...
West Virginia knocked over Long Island University, last year's winner and this year's favorite, in the first round. Meantime Omaha's Jesuit-run Creighton University had eliminated the giant skygacks of West Texas State (TIME, Feb. 16) and were in turn eliminated by Coach Uncle Ed Diddle's Western Kentucky State boys, who had already put out the smart metropolitan champs from the City College of New York. Seven of the eight games in the tournament were upsets...
...Jesuit Mission Press in Manhattan dug up this ancient history in reporting that today's Japanese invasion has brought 6,000 Filipino lepers on the blockaded island of Culion near starvation...
After viewing the season's finale between the two Jesuit teams from the Fenway Park press box Saturday afternoon it is my considered opinion that the Harlow style of football would completely outsmart the Myers-Shecketski dish...