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...Universam Creaturam: "Quia arcano Dei consilio succedimus in locum Principis Apostolorum, corum nempe quorum doctrina et praedicatio jussu divino ad omnes gentes et omnem creaturam destinata est et quia primi in loco ipso mira sane ope Marconiana uti fruipossumus, ad omnia et omnes primo nos convertimus, atque, hie et infra, sacro textu juvante, dicimus...
...England by the Young Pretender) hardly touch him, though he and his son are in Carlisle when the town falls to Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders. His mistress dismissed, his wife dead, his children grown up and married, Herries becomes more and more alone, meets red-headed Mira-bell Starr, outlaw child of the moors, and loses his heart for the first time. The rest of his story tells how he grows old, not gracefully but well...
...Mahatma also bade goodbye to a six-foot sun-blackened, scantily-clad girl of 30, with a shaven pate, who is general supervisor of the headquarters, and would tend his tasks during his absence. Srimati Mira Bai he calls her, but her real name is Madeleine Slade. Once a freckled blonde, she is a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Edward Slade of the Royal Navy. She studied philosophy in several Continental schools, found nothing to inspire her until she read of the Mahatma's labor. Correspondence with him followed; in 1926 she went to India, cheerfully accepted the year...
...lenient Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...
...star Mira was discovered to vary in intensity by the astronomer Fabricus in 1596. It is a deep red color and fluctuates in periods of eleven months -is sometimes 200 times brighter at maximum than at minimum light. Mira has a companion star very close to it, which was discovered at Lick Observatory...