Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only two previously: in 1902 for the late William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, "father of submarine telegraphy" in 1919 for Cardinal Mercier...
...cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...dollars, was given to the world by him from the Hotel Biltmore, Manhattan. The significance of the gift lies in the fact that Christian unity has hitherto been one of the most orated and one of the least supported ideals in Christendom. Great churchmen like Bishop Brent, Cardinal Mercier, John R. Mott, have given much of their lives to it, but few philanthropists* have given their fortunes to it. Now there is money, as well as voices, to propagate the ideal...
...Where is Walla Walla?" One of the most, unusual requests came as a the result of Professor De Wolfe's return to Belgium after completing his lecture course of the first half year. The person inquiring was under the impression that Professor De Wolfe had returned to see Cardinal Mercier before the death of the Belgian prelate and wished to know if he had arrived in time...
...papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many vacant benches at his first lecture. So with theological...