Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Dr. Infeld. It was not so difficult to keep it a secret from Dr. Einstein. On the day of the party this week a book† will be published of which Drs. Einstein & Infeld are coauthors, the first "popular" book on physics to which Albert Einstein has ever lent his name...
...Richard J. Daly, who pleaded guilty to hypothecating $150,000 in customers' securities last June; two partners of Jesse Hyman & Co. convicted of grand larceny together with William F. Enright, who had charge of the security box of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., after this reputable firm discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners; the floor partner of Thomas & Griffith, suspended from dealing on the Exchange for three years because the firm had over-hypothecated customers' funds, but not prosecuted because it was able to return the securities...
...rest their eyes from newspaper headlines (see p. 19), Manhattanites last week thronged into half-a-dozen first-rate exhibitions which made the season of Lent almost an art season in itself...
...reporters who filed into his sanctum on the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration and the first Friday in Lent, Franklin Roosevelt last week promptly announced that the proper lead for the story he was about to give them was this psalm, which he had just heard read at St. John's Episcopal Church. Furthermore, said the Harvard Crimson's onetime chief, make-up editors should put it at the top of the page...
...beginning of Lent last week reminded Christians throughout the world of the last days on earth of the Prince of Peace, churchmen were everywhere considering with renewed soberness the tenuous prospect of peace on earth. Though many Protestant clergymen are out & out pacifists, most Catholics have been restrained on that subject. Newsworthy was it, therefore, when an eminent Catholic divine opened Lent with a ringing pastoral letter on the subject of peace. He was the Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, the forceful, ruddy Dominican who for 13 years has been Archbishop of Cincinnati. He wrote...