Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As a Catholic statesman, born of a noble (but not rich) Roman family which had furnished functionaries to the Holy See for two centuries, Eugenic Pacelli rose swiftly. During the World War he was Nuncio at Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV'...
In the Sistine Chapel the Holy Father received the third of five "obediences" from the Cardinals,† delivered a brief address, which was broadcast. Pius XII invoked blessings not only upon all Catholics, but with highest tact declared: "In this solemn moment our thoughts run also to all those who...
Since the first explosion reverberated through the world's laboratories, the fission of thorium, as well as uranium, has been demonstrated. Atom-wranglers at Columbia University have shown that, under various conditions, the fission of uranium yields krypton, strontium, iodine, xenon, tellurium as disintegration products. The flood of reports...
The Great Hearst. Hearst's career spanned exactly half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst...
To ensure her Danish divorce going through next year without further fuss, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow finally agreed in Great Britain's High Court of Justice to give her husband, Count Court, "custody, care and superintendence" of their 2½year-old son, Lance until he is 21...