Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prior to February 1952 the University calendar provided for one more day between terms, but the day was cut in making the academic year a week shorter...
Since Bridges had originally agreed to appear exclusively before the Conservative Club, prior to his Forum commitment, HCC members revealed charges of increasing HYRC pressure to "co-sponsor" all Republican speakers scheduled...
...doing for the fatherland." In short: get to work. The People's Daily dutifully chimed in with a call for educating "students' parents in the glory of labor." Radio Peking added soothingly: "Many comrades in the rank and file of our revolutionary columns had no prior school education...
...rated by former Louvre Curator Germain Bazin as "no doubt the most perfect of all Fra Angelico's works." Fra Angelico found himself besieged with requests as his style became more widely known and admired. Contemporary accounts describe his reaction-he simply referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being contented with little." Florence's prosperous Guild of Flaxworkers took a more businesslike attitude. Their contract specified that their three-paneled painting be done "inside and out with gold, blue and silver of the best and finest." In payment...
Stories Vasari collected long afterward show Fra Angelico still the self-effacing monk. When Fra Angelico's old convent at Fiesole elected him to the three-year term as prior, he gladly accepted, but more honor he avoided. When Pope Nicholas V offered to make him Archbishop of Florence, Fra Angelico. who believed that there was "less trouble and error in obeying others," declined. He urged instead a fellow Dominican, who was later canonized as St. Antoninus...