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France. "The emotional side of me tends to imagine France, like the princess in the fairy stories or the Madonna in the frescoes, as dedicated to an exalted and exceptional destiny. Instinctively I have the feeling that Providence has created her either for complete successes or for exemplary misfortunes ... In short, to my mind, France cannot be France without greatness...
...died when I was a child; I have no living kin. I never met a girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed as a vendor of hot potatoes. If people were catching cold. Kawamura sneezed before anyone else; if there was a typhoon, flood or fire...
...Christ child doll-an unbreakable, washable, 9-in. model of the Christ child, packaged in a straw and satin crib with a picture of the Bethlehem manger and appropriate Biblical texts in either King James or Douay versions. Price: $8.00. A "de luxe model with beautiful cathedral background" costs $12.00. The Christ child doll has not been a conspicuous success, despite approval by both Protestant and Catholic authorities. A comparison shopper for Macy's in Kansas City reported excitedly that "the Jones Store has marked Jesus Christ down 50%!" Explained Macy's K.C. manager ruefully: "I guess mothers...
...that left them (at a travel speed of 186,300 miles per second) when they were 2 billion years younger than they are now. But 2 billion years is a comparatively short backward leap into the cosmic past, does not reveal enough evidence of change to prove or disprove either theory...
...proved right. For steady state theory holds that the universe's matter was no more concentrated then than it is now. Its stars and galaxies change and develop, but the universe as a whole does not grow old. It had no beginning and will have no end, either in time or space...