Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kemble agreed with Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics and one of the scientists on the original American bomb project, in saying that the best way for any nation to proceed on an independent basis is first to perform experiments of a fairly independent, imitative nature...
...watchers. At Windsor, as another procession formed to escort the King to his last resting place, an irritated bystander muttered: "Stand still, please. Stand in one place so people can see." The Archbishops of Canterbury and York were waiting in the castle's Chapel of St. George to perform the last rites. The Primate spoke the old words from the Book of Common Prayer: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes...
...Continent to study for the priesthood. "God grant," he told himself after the shores of England slipped away, "that I may always love and dutifully carry the cross of Christ and walk worthily of the vocation to which I am called." The Jesuits gave Father Gerard other offices to perform, e.g., rector of a house of philosophy at Liege, confessor to the English College at Rome. But he never saw England again...
Like a veteran, Arnall played cat & mouse with the OPS job offer. When he finally accepted it, he issued a statement that "in America someone must ever be willing to perform the difficult but tough, unpopular and thankless tasks." Some Washington hands think that he believes Truman will run and is simply getting on the bandwagon...
...remaining 59 prelates are in Communist China. Twenty-one bishops, mostly native Chinese, are known to be in prison there. None of the others is able to perform his duties. No one, at the Vatican or anywhere else outside China, has even a good idea where they...