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Word: mackays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this fond biography of her grandmother. Author Ellin Mackay Berlin tells how Louise made the leap from being a tenement child to becoming the 19th century's hostess with the mostes'. The child of a Manhattan barber and his seamstress wife. Louise used to deliver her mother's embroidery to the fine houses on Washington Square and St. John's Park. Her one ambition was to break into that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making the Riffle | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...explored in Christianity and the Existentialists, a new book published by Scribner ($3.75) and edited by Carl Michalson, professor of systematic theology at Drew University. Its eight chapters include studies of Kierkegaard by Theologian H. (for Helmut) Richard Niebuhr,* Spain's Miguel de Unamuno by President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Nicholas Berdyaev by Matthew Spinka, professor of church history at the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Gabriel Marcel by Professor J. V. Langmead Casserley of the General Theological Seminary, Martin Heidegger by Erich Dinkler of Yale Divinity School, and of modern art by Harvard's Professor Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who's an Existentialist? | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...once said, "is to struggle with God." And he carried on the struggle in a setting of "transcendental pessimism." Man's heart craves God and immortality, he held, but his intellect can never prove their existence. Therefore, "let life be lived in such a way," Princeton's Mackay paraphrases him, "with such dedication to goodness and the highest values that if, after all, it is annihilation which finally awaits us, that will be an injustice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who's an Existentialist? | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Funds for the expansion will be made available from the Douglas Mackay bequest, the division's principal source of income. Kronauer said that no special drive for funds was planned until the bequest was exhausted. "We are still very much in the black," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Engineering Students Will Get New Facilities | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for the First Lady. Diamond Jim Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Standing Straight at Tiffany's | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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