Word: iii
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...such royal, rolling phrases, King William III gave his gracious assent to the founding in 1701 of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the Church of England's oldest missionary organization. The plantations, colonies and factories mentioned were largely the King's American colonies, which until the Revolution were the S.P.G.'s principal mission field. Besides standard ecclesiastical works, e.g., Patrick Smith's Preservative against Quakerism and The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, missionaries carried with them local helps such as Bishop Wilson's Essay Towards...
...which is to show the audience that the world is still not ready for saints, no matter how much it admires the dead ones. It is as impossible theatrically as the infamous Don Juan in Hell Scene and considering the perfect ways in which the first scene of Act III ends, I can't help regretting that Miss Webster didn't show more restraint than Mr. Shaw...
During the show, two tiny delta-wing jets, the Avro 707-B and the Boulton Paul P-III, whizzed past the stands with amazing maneuverability. They looked like boys' paper darts, but they flew so fast that they had to land with parachute drags. Many British experts believe that airplanes like them will dominate the future. Britain's Minister of Supply, George R. Strauss (who lets all British aircraft contracts), calls the delta-wings "maybe the most important new factor in aeronautics...
Rheinlander points out the following maximum enrollments: Natural Sciences I, 80 students; Nat. Sci. II, 80; Nat. Sci. III, 350; Nat. Sci. IV, 150; Nat. Sci. V, 150. In Nat. Sci. I, for example, Rheinlander says that there are 60 sophomores who applied for the course last spring, but if freshmen take up the spaces first, then they get preference...
Though stymied in this attempt, Baker did not give up. He became Vice Chairman of the Finletter Commission set up to advise the President on an intergrated national aviation policy, "as interesting and sobering a job as I have ever had." After studying the possibilities of World War III, the Commission called for a strong seventy-group air force with an 8000 plane reserve in case production centers were knocked out. The United States could be relatively secure only with an air force so strong that other nations would hesitate to attack...