Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buildings for the College of the Propaganda of the Faith on a site of three acres on the Giancialo in Rome. His Holiness Pope Pius XI has shown his particular interest in this novel piece of financing by summoning Cardinal Mundelein and the Right Rev. Mgr. B. J. Shell, both of Chicago, to Rome to conclude arrangements for the issue. They were to sail during the week...
...best, including the recognizeable figure in the L and the ibis, wearing an expression of maternal anxiety, hatched baby deans out of University Hall. There is a pretty thought for you! One of the questions in "The Little Known Courses" might be, "Have any ever broken the shell?" And the insides of the number are good. "Another Prowler" by LCJ, who has also a cartoon, not so powerful as his Hickman cartoon (which deserved more notice than it got), is the best of the drawings. But Personalities No. 5. is good also. And anyway who cares if the drawing...
Silent upon the shore of Coney Island, N. Y., one day last week, sat the Governor of South Dakota. It was the first time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty...
...Petroleum Corp., with assets of $98,000,000, has 70,000 opulent acres in California. Reason for the merger: to expand the Texas Corp.'s operations in the Far East in order to compete more effectively against the Standard Oil Co. of New York and the Royal Dutch Shell group. R. C. Holmes is president of the Texas Corp.; Jacques Vinmont of the California Petroleum Corp...
...voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were a solemn whisper always ringing in his ears like the sea's slow music echoing in a shell. It is easy to believe the legends of Hardy which picture him as he grew up writing love letters for illiterate or ineloquent country ladies; sitting in thatched cottages hearing farmers tell the stories about old battles that had once stirred their brief clamor in the endless quiet. When...