Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast as the Servites-whose permission, willingly granted, had to be asked before a church could adopt the ritual-were able to get around to direct the opening services. The seven Servite Stations are devoted to the sorrows of Mary, whereas the usual 14 Stations are devoted to the Passion of Christ...
...Garbo and Dietrich. Hedy has been chiefly famous for her appearance, nude, in the Czechoslovakian film Extase, produced in 1933 by young Director Gustav Machaty as "a sermon in eugenics," exploited wherever U. S. cinema censors permitted, a picture which had one exquisitely played, if adulterous, moment of passion...
...built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week's sale was the familiar story of a collector's son who had inherited his father's pile but not his father's passion...
...extent that makes him a unique character among U. S. physicists. Once he proved that the moon was not made out of green cheese-by obtaining a spectrographic analysis of a piece of green cheese and comparing it with one of the moon. He has always had a passion for making apparatus out of any odd piece of junk that came to hand. On one occasion he made a telescope mounting out of an old bicycle. On another, he obtained a 20-ft. length of iron pipe, about six inches in diameter, which he intended to use as a spectroscope...
...long as man has the passion to alter the perfectly balanced conditions of life which nature, through countless ages, has developed," Fernald warned, "the rare and retiring plant or animal has no more chance of survival than has the human fugitive aristocrat in the dictator-ruled countries which are so upsetting to lovers of human liberty...