Word: precious
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Smart, alert, pious, neat, athletic, Father Will is also sandy-haired, looks like a Texas ranger. He was born in Wooster, Ohio, studied at a seminary run by Fathers of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1908 and given a parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., still his home diocese. For a time Father Arnold had the odd task of acting as chaplain for Catholics in the Wallace Circus, in winter quarters at Peru. Ind. In 1913, he applied to the chaplain bishop of his church for an appointment as army chaplain. He was going to try it only...
...convention in Chicago last week gathered the men who control the third largest U. S. unmanufactured crop export. Largest is cotton, next is tobacco and third is the humble apple. To safeguard this precious fruit the International Apple Association met for the first time 42 years ago in Chicago's Hotel Sherman. Last week, 1,400 strong, the applemen were back at the Sherman with apple problems on their minds, Les Apple Trees Glacé on their tables and on their program plans for using the saga of Johnny Appleseed as a promotion scheme...
...expression for those bereft of hearing, be it resolved that this Association unhesitatingly reaffirms its historical allegiance to and support of the beautiful Sign Language and Manual Alphabet, and commends all efforts made for its preservation and extension to the end that it may be passed on as a precious heritage to enlighten and inspire coming generations of the deaf...
...first and greatest specialists in the field of obsolete securities, the over-the-counter firm of R. M. Smythe, Inc. gradually gained comfortable renown. President Smythe lined his office with bookcases full of precious old directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents...
...present inadequate to care for us properly, especially in epidemic time; 2) fireproofiing and fire escapes for Harvard and Sever Halls. Of course, there never will be a fire there, but when it comes some few of us may be messed up; 3) making more of the precious and at present uncatalogued books in the Library available to us and creating a unified and separate music library; 4) endowing athletics so that our full program may be really open to all, really amateur, independent of press ballyhoo; 5) leveling off a needed new athletic field just beyond the Stadium...