Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Central Churchmanship. Geoffrey Fisher's father was a country vicar in Warwickshire; so was his father before him. Geoffrey grew up in the calm Christianity of the family parsonage, and never forgot it. After a brilliant record at Exeter College, Oxford (where he was a crack lightweight oarsman), he turned to the church. He was ordained in 1911. Three years later, at 27, he was appointed headmaster of Repton School...
...thinks the Sapphire proved his own judgment right. His choice of delta-wing at first shocked Sopwith's crack designer, Sydney Camm, who dashed off to Yorkshire to seek "The Skipper," crying: "I won't have it! I won't have it!" The Skipper's calm reply: "Why?" Designer Camm returned to his drawing board convinced. Says he: "When he asks you why and looks at you, you always find that there's no reason why. If there is a reason why, he doesn...
Next, the family endured a period of trial by water. Six times he was hauled out of the neighboring creek, "in a substantially drown [sic] condition." Mother remained calm. In the manner of Tom's Aunt Polly, she reflected: "People who are born to be hanged are safe in the water...
...attend his last patient and they agreed. Then Moroka, a devout Christian and moderate who believes that "white and black need each other," was led off to jail, charged with "promoting the objects of Communism," and released on $280 bail. He appealed to black South Africans to "stay calm and behave with dignity...
...front page of his newspaper Diario do Rio, he printed a shattering notice: "On this date, for unforeseen reasons I am closing my commercial activities . . . Those who intuitively saw that my business would fail were right . . . I shall not run away . . . My creditors will be paid . . . Remain calm, my friends...