Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priest came forward, prayed over the men, sprinkled holy water toward the seaplanes, and invoked the blessing of the Virgin of Loreto.* "O God, . . . who hast destined all the elements of this world for the use of the human race, bless us, we beseech Thee, this aircraft . . . that those who flying in it put themselves under the care of the Blessed Virgin, may speedily arrive at their destination and may return home unharmed. . . ." After last farewells, the visitors were herded out, the gates were locked-with General Balbo inside, and the pilots impatiently awaited the order: "Decollare!" (take...
...Virgin Birth, he believes, may some day be proved biologically possible. An individual so produced would probably be a male, with half the normal number of chromosomes. Of the propriety of investigating virgin birth, Dr. Barnes says: "Reverence and truth can always be combined, unless the object of our reverence should happen to be untrue...
Mother Mary Isabella, Superior General of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin, builder of Mundelein College for Women in Chicago LL.D...
...show's "ten most significant" pictures: Hans Holbein's Portrait of Catherine Howard from Toledo's Museum of Art; Tiziano Vicellio's (Titian) Venus and the Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez' Isabella, First Queen of Philip IV of Spain from Philanthropist Max Epstein of Chicago; Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn...
Died. Andrew Cameron Pearson, 59, board chairman of United Publishers Corp. (trade journals), president of National Publishers Assn., national chairman of the American Publishers Conference, brother of Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands; of a heart attack; in Montclair...