Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the job of forming a commission to evaluate the Navy's needs in regard to aircraft, submarine, surface craft, in order that the Navy budget for 1925-26 may be intelligently cut. ¶ The President addressed the Holy Name Society, at the foot of the Washington Monument, after 100,000 of its members had marched for four hours in the rain. Said...
...Grace Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, welcomed to Washington 100,000 or more delegates to the 650th anniversary celebration of the Holy Name Society. F"our days of demonstration were to conclude with a monster parade to the Washington Monument before which, at a specially erected altar, the vigorous young Archbishop was to celebrate a pontifical mass. History. Pope Gregory X and the second Council of Lyons, in 1274, enjoined that the "faithful" should "demonstrate more reverence for the Name above all names, the only Name in which we can claim salvation-the name of Jesus Christ." This special...
...start service for Washington in 1907, a dilemma arose. So fast did he throw a ball that no average catcher could "hold him." Finally "Gabby" Street was found. "Gabby" talked a lot but could catch and hold anything, even a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument. After Street, Edward Ainsmith was discovered. At present one "Muddy" Ruel risks his palms and finger tips stopping Johnson's 'bulletlike "in visibles." Tall, blonde, 37 a native of Humboldt, Kan., father to three sons, John son has been called "greatest pitcher of all time," a possible equal being...
...only 35 books have been known to scholars since the 7th Century. The authenticity of the find was endorsed by Professor Delis, Director of the Neapolitan Library, and by Professor Nicola Barone, Director of the State Archives at Naples. Livy wrote his history as a Roman, to raise a monument to the greatness of Rome. His work is well-nigh finally authoritative for the period from the landing of Aeneas in Italy to the death of Drusus, 9 B.C. Knowledge of the contents of the lost books was derived from so-called periochae, or epitomes, an almost complete...
...SWAN-Eva Le Gallienne and the notable cast that made Molnar's comedy of Continental royalty a surviving monument in the season past...