Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
...Sister Clodagh, the Superior, found no trouble in keeping herself and the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed the suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...
However, my purpose in writing you is to congratulate TIME and also your sister publication LIFE on printing both sides of the story. There are too many magazines (mostly American) which are afraid to publish the letters that are sent in to them condemning their policies and editorials. But not TIME...
Weeks before the Squalus went down, the guilty valve failed to open properly but had never failed to close. It was disassembled, supposedly put in perfect order. On the Squalus and her sister boats, this valve is outside the hull, near the conning tower and invisible to those inside, who must depend on signal lights to know whether it is open or closed. The electrical signal system could have lied "if the mechanism was out of order...
Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...