Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, incense hung heavy in the air of St. Andrew's Mission Church in the little English township of Carshalton, Surrey. Candles cast a golden glow in the churchly dark, and High Mass was celebrated without a flaw in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church. There was one slight flaw, however. St. Andrew's belongs to the Church of England...
...used to correct stenosis (narrowing) of the pulmonary artery in children. The work, therefore, affords valuable practice and may turn up information of value in human surgery. Since he rates it as research and not a medical service, Dr. Segal collects no fee even when the patient is a high-priced...
...seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment in his anecdote, Jones drops the laconic footnote, "Private information," and rushes on in a mountain torrent of Welsh reminiscences...
...first son of a millionaire Assyrian camel-caravan operator, and that his family fled to France during anti-Christian riots in the early 1920s. By 1928, the Aivaz family was in New Britain, Conn., flat broke. There were seven youngsters to feed by then, so Jonathan never finished high school. He worked his way across the country as a movie pressagent, wound up with a small "chitchat and music" program on a Seattle radio station, and a new name-no one could pronounce...
Each autumn the nation's most indignant parents are those with children barely too young to enter school. The cutoff age may be as high as 6½ (in Des Moines) or as low as 5 years 3 months (in Norwich, N.Y.), but thousands of children are bound to miss out by a few days or weeks. In 77% of U.S. public schools, the rules are inflexible; the child simply has to wait another year...