Word: preciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school's most precious endowment," the Cardinal concluded, is "the combination of the American and Catholic spirit fused and sanctified in ... the lives of the 50 priests who have dedicated themselves to the education of your sons that they may be sincere, active Catholics, and thus, inevitably, sincere patriotic Americans...
...quarters, maybe a hundred dimes and several hundred nickels-a total of maybe $40 or $50 contributed by 500 or 700 people . . . Hence, the detestable practice which leads some priests to go around with the basket. They do it because they obtain more money. But they lose something more precious than money -the respect of the people...
...moving passage, he speaks to the Russians: "Your rulers tell you many harsh things about America . . . Yet any American who visits the Soviet Union comes away deeply aware that, for all his country's shortcomings, America has a most precious heritage: freedom. Not the four freedoms, or this freedom, or that one. Freedom . . . We Americans hope that some day you may find out these things. We hope against hope that some day your leaders, who take such pride in having taught you how to read, will let you decide for yourselves what to read. Only then would...
Thereafter he lived a quiet, secluded life in Coburg among his flowers, birds, and collection of unset precious stones. At Coburg, last week, 87-year-old Ferdinand of Bulgaria died...
Fitness to Rule. In 1939, when he assumed the throne of Baroda, the Maharaja's personal fortune was estimated at $300 million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply...