Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modernism." At the beginning of the century he was teaching theology in St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. (where he was born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...
Football Background. Interviewed in Manhattan, Dr. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of football-famed Notre Dame University, said: "Behind a great football team there must be an intellectual and moral background, and while a first-rate college can function successfully without football, a good football team always goes with a good college. Athletes look to the greatness of a college and are inspired to uphold its intellectual and moral prestige." Soft Drinks, Sandwiches. In commenting on his announcement that henceforth the University of Washington will eliminate courses of a vocational or trade nature, said President Matthew Lyle Spencer...
Georgia. Renominated by a 4-to-1 vote was bushy-browed Democratic Senator William Julius Harris over John Marshall Slaton. One issue of their campaign was the fact that 15 years ago Mr. Slaton, as Governor, had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, later lynched. Eleven of the State's Congressmen were renominated while the twelfth, Representative Thomas Montgomery Bell, was defeated by Judge John Woods. A run-off primary was necessary to decide the gubernatorial nomination...
...humdrum circle, may be left to the reader. Author Edmonds has studied his people, listened to their speech, and remembered what he has seen and heard. His minor characters, crotchety or crabbed, leave a more memorable impression than the more generally typical protagonists. The two figures of Pat and Leo, Dickensian country carpenters wandering inseparably through the story, are like Mutt & Jeff come true...
...little suggestion to make in furthering the aims of such an enterprise, which if you think worthy, publish in your columns. As an employe of the Muchenberger Bros. Wallpaper and Paint Co., of Kansas City, Mo., I, with other employes were called together one eve by our President, Mr. Leo Muchenberger to receive not a lecture, but a heart-to-heart talk on the present economic condition of our great and vast country, such as the available markets, present low prices on some of our most needed commodities of every day living, overproduction, and what not. Summing up the situation...