Word: solemnization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since it dawned on them a decade or so ago, has excited sportswriters almost as much as it has bored the rest of the U. S. public. That the racket of proving that college football as a racket is interminable was suggested again last week by an article by solemn Sportswriter John R. Tunis in the American Mercury. Last summer, in a book called Was College Worth While? Harvardman Tunis saluted his alma mater's tercentenary by trying to show that most of his 1911 classmates were failures (TIME, Sept. 14). In More Pay for College Football Stars, Sportswriter...
Last week Ayer's solemn progress was rudely disturbed by one of those things the old firm so deplores in the affairs of its livelier corporate clients -a well-publicized fight for stock control. The year its new building was finished, N. W. Ayer & Son was converted into a corporation with a stock ownership limited to Ayer officers and employes. Control, how ever, continued to rest in the hands of President Wilfred Washington Fry until his death last summer (TIME...
...Yandenberg replied: "That was a supremely solemn obligation, Mr. Roosevelt. . . . I ask you how one can ignore Constitutional doubts, however reason able, and yet preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Professor Hocking did not say at which period in our history we became a gay instead of a solemn people. That would be interesting to know. But it is hard to see why Professor Hocking thinks the change was for the worse. The nations with the greatest capacity for nonchalance are the ones best off today...
...between sovereign powers- which testify everywhere to the principle of Catholic freedom of action, even though in countries like Germany such freedom is not a fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became...