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Word: processional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, therefore, of lagging behind in this noble procession, the Department of the Classics is among the leaders. Those who have discovered that the thought and the art of Greece and Rome are not antiquated but abiding, naturally are eager to explore its many relations to the history of mankind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Diplomats, nobles, ecclesiastics, ex-royalty and representatives of reigning royalty filled the stands and ramps of St. Peter's when a glittering procession moved into the Basilica. Attendants waved great ostrich-feather fans, as the frail Holy Father, deathly pale, entered seated on his high sedia gestatoria (portable throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Triple Tiara | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

As the procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Triple Tiara | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

"On the same day at 1:30 in the afternoon the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals . . . will enter in a procession in the order of seniority into the conclave, where all the rest will be performed according to custom."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: According to Custom | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

With Europe's face remade in 1938, U. S. textbook maps today are out of date. Pupils learn geography from newspapers, magazines, such reviews as American Observer and Scholastic, which 600,000 youngsters read each week. They cluster for their daily lessons around school bulletin boards, across which march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Times & Texts | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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