Word: rite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Einstein is immensely proud of her husband. Says she: "He works like an artist. He sees a vision ... he works feverishly ... his temperature rises, his face becomes flushed and in his eyes there appears a far-away-look." When he is working hard on his theories she makes a rite of leaving him alone. "All these things I must do so that he will think he is free. ... He is all my life. ... He is worth it. ... I like being Mrs. Einstein very much. It is very important...
...businessmen who are laying out the nation's passenger airlines have not yet devised any rite for the opening of a new line comparable to the railroad rite of Driving the Golden Spike.∙At the opening last week of one more new artery of air travel-Eastern Air Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙-one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular...
Article XXXVII. The Eastern rite of the Orthodox Christian religion is the State Religion in the Kingdom of Bulgaria...
...take pride in the fact that my father was a gay man, that he liked to give and receive parties. For many years after he was well past 70 we kept, with all the ardor of a religious rite, a cocktail hour...
...ballet directed by Leonide Massine, the setting and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, all aimed at abstraction of movement and form. But there was a libretto for nonabstract minds to follow. Many a humble spectator welcomed this crutch to keep up with " The Hand of Fate" as well as with " Rite of Spring...