Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third ballot, the decision came. Cardinal Pacelli suddenly hid his deathly pale face in his hands. At the end of the roll, it was evident that only Pacelli had voted against Pacelli. Outside, before the wildly cheering crowd, a cardinal solemnly pronounced the ancient formula: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus papam . . . [I announce to you a great joy: we have a Pope...
...volumes of his monumental A Study of History a bestseller, and Toynbee's name tinkled among the Martini glasses of Brooklyn as well as of Bloomsbury. Now, Historian Toynbee gives his public a peek at what is yet to come in Volumes VII through X of his magnum opus, due for publication next year. The World and the West, a collection of six lectures delivered last year on the BBC, is always readable, if often disconcertingly brief in its arguments...
...palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated in railroads and oil, was the first extensive collector of baroque paintings in America (because they were bigger than the paintings done in any other style). He lived high, wide & handsome, dressed like a raffish fashion plate, ate grossly, drank fine wines by the magnum and Jeroboam, kept pretty women about him, slept most of the day, and worked and played all through the night...
...sensible, just law out of the jumble of loopholes and restrictions that make up the United States' present immigration policy, it picked the wrong man to do it. Pat McCarran and his staff have labored mightily to produce three hundred and one pages of immigration law, but their magnum opus only worsens the present inequities by codifying them. The Senator from Nevada, the symbol of American immigration policy, is an unfriendly host indeed...
With a hefty, two-handed swing, the wife of Senator Tom Connally last week smashed a magnum of California champagne against the bow of the biggest, fastest, most luxurious ship ever built in the U.S. Then, before 10,000 flag-waving spectators at Newport News, Va., the 51,500-ton, 990-ft. United States was "launched," i.e., she was towed from the flooded drydock in which she was built (she was too big for the ways of any U.S. shipyard) into the James River, and gently nudged by twelve tugs to her finishing pier...