Word: solemnizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Down. In the shot-put, five of the six finalists did better than the Olympic record of 53 ft. if in. But the great Fonville, bothered by a wrenched back, finished fourth-off the squad. In first place was San Francisco's solemn, burly, Francis Delaney, who used to put the shot for Notre Dame, and bettered the existing Olympic record by two feet...
...Canterbury's high-vaulted Cathedral, a fanfare of trumpets cracked the chilly air. On either side of the choir stood 314 bishops, in full Episcopal regalia. Down the center aisle came a solemn single file: a black-robed verger, a crucifer, church dignitaries in black and scarlet, the tanned, white-topped "Red Dean" of Canterbury, 14 archbishops and finally the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury himself. The choir, in soaring descant, sang the words of Psalm 122-"I was glad when they said unto me: let us go into the house of the Lord...
...human welfare . . . The Congress has voted a European Recovery Program because it believes that the free nations of the world can grow in strength and unity . . . Our task is to put the world on its feet, and not on our back . . ." The promise was to be repeated, in more solemn tones, by Herbert Hoover the next night...
...this embarrassingly worshipful biography, Eugene Lyons has set out to portray "the warm, whimsical, and tender Hoover . . . the very human and deeply humane Quaker behind the solemn façade." With a convert's zeal, rightish Political Journalist Lyons, a onetime fellow traveler, also tries to give a more favorable version of Hoover's administration. It is a hard, loving, earnest try-but it doesn't quite come...
When the U.A.W.'s solemn Vice President John Livingston saw the offer, he dropped his other demands and snapped it up. The union called the 3? annual increase no more than a gesture, but it hailed G.M.'s acceptance of "the principle that prices and profits are a concern of labor...