Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departure. Sylvia's husband cannot go, so is left behind. The S. S. Rhinoceros puffs to England with all the polyglots, via Hongkong, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, Gibraltar. Georges, secretly honeymooning with Sylvia, is more satisfied than ever to leave his life and love in the hands of Fate and Aunt Teresa...
Conducted by Fate, Kate's artist, Chris Fenno, no longer a boy, suddenly appeared as Anne's fiance and mother-panic had an unpleasant struggle with mother-revulsion. To tell the girl about a certain week in Normandy would have been to lose her. The family minister contributed some sound observations on "sterile pain" and panic, thus reinforced, carried the day. Not heroic, perhaps, but who shall say unnatural...
...more livable portions of the globe, conjecture on Amundsen's fate continued...
...followed his advice. Two years later, in June, a brother lent me five dollars with which to the entrance-examination fee. Those words, 'Be ready' kept haunting me, although I still had no hopes of going to college. My school work hardly merited a scholarship, but a kind fate was on my side and a few days before college opened, I was granted my first year tuition fee in the form of a scholarship...
Donald B. Macmillan, U. S. Arctic explorer: "There is no reason for Amundsen to hurry back to his base, provided his ships are intact. . . . His fate is dependent entirely on the condition of his ships...