Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excited about last week. For the regatta, Italy had sent over three boats of the 12-litre class which raced against the closest U. S. equivalent -Gold Cup craft, with superchargers. A minute before the third and last heat of the 12-litre race, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy, Count Rossi de Montelera. heading for the starting line in his red Barracuda, smashed into a little rowboat which he had failed to notice in his path. In the rowboat were the Marquis de la Gandara and his mechanic. They were fished out safe and sound but officials refused to give...
...saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later became St. Vincent de Paul, Mme Le Gras devoted herself to good works. In 1633 she gathered about her four young women whom she trained in caring for the poor. Out of this community grew the Daughters (or Sisters) of Charity-first active, non-contemplative order of women. Mme Le Gras founded schools, foundling homes...
...which will determine the outboard champion. Climax of the regatta will be a race at Miami between big inboard motorboats - Italy's 12-litre class against U. S. Gold Cup craft, like Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VI, John Shibe's new Miss Philadelphia, for the Vincent Bendix Trophy...
William P. Rockwell '35 will offer an exhibition of Uni. cycling and will do a juggling act. Several numbers will be played by the guitar quartet, which consists of Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Guy S. Hayes '34, Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36, and Daniel T. V. Huntoon '35. After the program the Gold Coast Orchestra will play at a dance...
...legends are found, of course in the great mediaeval encyclopaedias such as that of Vincent, and, like other things in Vincent's encyclopaedia, they are uncritically related. But this, only indicates a fact which none denies, that the middle age had not developed a critical technique for the writing of history, and only a dull reading back of our own critical standards can prove that Vincent, and his learned contemporaries, were themselves credulous of these legends. If they did not distinguish fact from fancy in the modern scholarly manner, the fair inference is that this proves, not a moony confusion...