Word: setters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than it takes to elect a President of the U.S. It is well for his church that he is not subjected to the abuse of a U.S. President. If he were, he would rejoice that he could be replaced in tour years by the College of Cardinals. A setter man may be sitting waiting...
...final judging for the championship of the show, Storm was matched against a Skye terrier which looked like a dust mop, a prissy poodle, a sad-eyed bloodhound, a self-conscious Irish setter and a pudgy pug. It was hardly a contest. Storm, sleek and cocky, paraded around with the aplomb of a high-fashion model. He stood stolidly as the judge solemnly inspected his teeth, eyes, haunches and toenails. Some 10,000 dog fanciers were on tenterhooks as the judge walked over to where all the silverware was. Dramatically, at just the proper moment, the judge pointed at Storm...
...Corey Ford goes even further in allowing that it's a dog's world. "Every dog," Author Ford says, "should have a man of his own . . . Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend." However, says Ford, who is owned by an English setter named Cider, a dog must "make it clear from the outset which one of you is boss." A man should only be allowed to sit in one easy chair, and should not eat out of the same dish as his master. After a man has become "thoroughly familiar with the leash...
First for Maryknoll. A doorstep in China, Bishop Ford was a door opener and pace setter for his order, the Maryknoll Society, which now numbers 2,337 fathers and sisters. He was the first student to enroll at Maryknoll when it was founded 40 years ago. Ordained a priest in 1917, he was one of the first four missioners Maryknoll sent to China the following year. He founded the Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys and played a key part in organizing the first overseas convent for Maryknoll sisters. His diocese would have been the first Maryknoll territory to be turned...
...hydroplanes jockeyed and circled, awaiting the start of the first of three 30-mile heats, some 250,000 fans on the shores of Seattle's Lake Washington confidently cheered the two local entries-Stanley Sayres's Slo-mo-shun V and his Slo-mo-shun IV, setter of the world one-mile speed record of 178.497 m.p.h. (TIME, July...