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Word: principall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prisoner Emerges | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Maurice Falk, rich Pittsburgher, established a $10,000,000 trust fund (Maurice & Laura Falk Foundation) "for the promotion of educational, religious, charitable, philanthropic and public interest." Administered by his nephew Leon Falk Jr. (with whose father he gave the $900,000 Falk Clinic to the University of Pittsburgh) and six...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

During the course of this research in England, which was undertaken last spring under the auspices of the Milton fund, Wells brought to light some new biographical data. The principal poets treated in the work are Skelton, Barelay, Hawes, and Stephen.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK TREATS WRITERS OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

King Alfonso XIII seldom visits Barcelona, though it is one of Spain's important cities and he has there a sumptuous palace with a plenitude of peacocks. He avoids it because the Catalans, no lovers of the monarchy, think nothing of regicide and occasionally throw bombs at royal persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shockless Sculptor | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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