Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responded more fervently to the cause of France than pretty, earnest Kathleen Burke of London. First she raised $4,000,000 for Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made 18 Atlantic crossings during the height of the submarine peril. When the war was over, she had won a permanent place in the hearts of Frenchmen. They called her "The Angel of France...
...elite schools, joined the Order, spent two years in China trying to incorporate Chinese thought into the Game, was sent on a sort of exchange scholarship to a Benedictine monastery, and at 37 became the youngest Magister Ludi in the history of the Order. After reaching the greatest height of the Order, he left it, and tried to return to the world, hoping to become a village schoolteacher...
...Medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.) and rangy, Henry is a 34-year-old copy of his father -bristling eyebrows and all. He also has some of his father's food fads (he eats 1,300 eggs a year), doesn't smoke or drink "Never got around to trying"). But he has no interest in politics (he dodges questions about his father because "father gets castrated so often in print") and reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
...remainder of the archdiocese headed by Archbishop Cushing follows the wording of the official interpretation of Catholic dogma which is found in a book revised every ten years called "The Baltimore Catechism." The most recent revision of this work occurred last April during the height of the controversy, though there was no connection between the two. The relevant part of the Catechism says in effect that all that possess God's grace, even if they are not actual members of the Church, are considered as belonging to the soul of the Church and thus can achieve salvation...
...Louis reject the common idea that a patient's intake of starches must be restricted; instead, they make the patient cut down on fats, to ease the load on the liver and to get his weight down to the ideal norm for his age and height...