Word: returning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bought as a "surprise" for Harry Widener by his grandfather when the young book collector was abroad, he never lived to realize that he owned it. On his return trip to this country he perished when the White Star steamer Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic in April...
...upshot: Ambassador Oderigo, with good diplomatic sense, announced that his communique had been partly in error. Next day at the airport, as he prepared to return to B.A., Alfredo Palacios, his eyes gleaming, received the warm abrazos and huzzahs of his Peruvian friends...
...will carry scientific instruments to the upper parts of the earth's atmosphere; 2) secondary rockets, which will be launched from the primary rockets to a height of 650 miles, and will also carry recording instruments; 3) flying missiles, "capable of flying off into interplanetary space, never to return," which will be hurled free at a speed of over seven miles a second...
...their part, several Lutheran churches are in process of a pronounced return to their original liturgy, after having suffered for two centuries an impoverishment comparable to that of the Calvinist churches. ... In Calvinist circles in France and Switzerland, among many young pastors, among students of theology and influential laymen, the legitimacy of liturgy in itself is no longer being argued, as it was before...
...Return of a Reputation. Last week 28 of Walter Greaves's paintings were on exhibition in a London gallery, an indication that his reputation was on the rise again-as a painter in his own right. His pleasingly melancholy river scenes lacked the sophistication of Whistler's art, but had a simple boatman's directness and integrity. "To Mr. Whistler," dogged Walter once said, "a boat was always a tone; to me it was always a boat...