Word: solemnizes
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...Yandenberg replied: "That was a supremely solemn obligation, Mr. Roosevelt. . . . I ask you how one can ignore Constitutional doubts, however reason able, and yet preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Professor Hocking did not say at which period in our history we became a gay instead of a solemn people. That would be interesting to know. But it is hard to see why Professor Hocking thinks the change was for the worse. The nations with the greatest capacity for nonchalance are the ones best off today...
...between sovereign powers- which testify everywhere to the principle of Catholic freedom of action, even though in countries like Germany such freedom is not a fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took an interest in young Pacelli's career, made him a protégé. Pacelli became...
...Columbia, as President Nicholas Murray Butler's academic procession made its solemn way across the Morningside campus, a dozen striking members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, armed with placards shrieking that COLUMBIA IS UNFAIR TO THE PAINTERS' UNION, wheeled impudently into the rear of the procession, followed it to McMillin Academic Theatre where they stayed outside to picket. Meanwhile in another corner of the campus the radical American Student Union planned to hold a mass meeting, incite Columbia students to strike from their classes unless Dr. Butler and Dean Herbert Hawkes reinstated Junior Robert Burke...
Batter Gehrig takes boyish pride in banging a baseball as far, and running around the bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees...