Word: terras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black & gold uniform, his cocked hat with white feathers and had himself ferried out to U. S. S. Indianapolis. If Sir Murchison's stout British heart suffered any anxiety that Franklin Roosevelt might greet him with the same sort of bunny hug lately practiced on President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay (see cut) and other non-British notables, his fears were quickly dissipated. The President shook hands at arm's length, charmed Sir Murchison with nothing more embarrassing than a smile...
That was not Franklin Roosevelt's last of South America, however. Next morning the Indianapolis docked at Montevideo and he came down the gangplank literally into the arms of Dr. Gabriel Terra, Uruguay's beaming President. They had a three-hour drive, passed 200,000 applauding Uruguayans, and Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt laid a wreath on the monument of Uruguay's liberator, General José Artigas. There followed another official luncheon at which Dr. Terra praised his own New Deal in Uruguay and then, with Latin preoccupation with domesticity, declared: "I raise my glass in a toast...
...mystical Welshman, Arthur Davies was so stirred by every form of artistic technique that his widow found works in 20 different media: paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, wood & ivory carvings, tapestry, rugs, stained glass, terra cotta and colored enamels. The only technical idiosyncrasy of George Bellows was a fondness for the cheap board on which the U. S. Government prints penny postcards. For his lithographs and drawings he used to buy reams of it, uncut, from Washington...
...received the blessings of his namesake (but no kinsman), Joseph Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne. Soon after, in 1927, Father Schulte raised some money, founded the Missionalium Vehiculorum Associatio or Missions-Verkchrs-Arbeitsgemeinschajt ("Missionary Communications Association"). Calling it MIVA for short, Father Schulte chose as its motto: Obmam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ on land and sea and in the air"). In 1929 he made his first journey to the U. S. to raise more money. Finally the Pope himself gave unqualified approval...
...bestow honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...