Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First leg in the 72 week pilot training program is the 26 week pre-flight training as aviation cadets, class V-5, at either Chapel Hill, North Carolina, or Athens, Georgia. The preliminary course completed, the cadets proceed to primary training at any one of a number of Navy fields, where they will be stationed for approximately 16 weeks...
...Sunday the President, wearing a red rose at his lapel and accompanied by all of the family group except his mother, went to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. In its chapel he led the nation's observance of a day of prayer in thanksgiving for victory. Then Harry Truman visited ailing Cordell Hull, a patient at the hospital...
...years ago. natives built a thatched chapel (capacity: 280) in the military cemetery on Guadalcanal. Then they gave it to the Americans in gratitude for driving out the Japanese. The presentation was made by a barefoot Christian native wearing a loincloth, who said: ''We have worked hard and we hope you like this church. And we pray that God will bless all of you and we hope you will pray for your friends who are lying in this cemetery. . . . Now we give this church to you. But this church no belong to you and me. This church belong...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt wrote in her diary: "At 11 we took darling Baby to the chapel in his prettiest clothes and best behavior. Dr. Cady christened him 'Franklin Delano.' . . . Baby was quite good and lovely so we were proud of him." The chapel was ivy-covered St. James' Episcopal Church (capacity: 200) in Hyde Park...
...neighborhood toughs greeted the new vicar of St. Luke's Episcopal Chapel with sneering hostility. They tried to frighten him off the sidewalks with raucous taunts about his celibacy. They hooted at the black cassock and big wooden cross he always wore as a member of the Society of Oblates of Mount Calvary. They sneaked into the parish house when his back was turned and smashed up the furniture. But tall, handsome Reverend Edward Henry Schlueter (rhymes with Peter) kept his stubborn smile and quietly got on with the job: bringing back to life his broken-down appendage...