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...Church of England renders honor and reverence to the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. But there is not the smallest evidence in the Scriptures or in the teaching of the early church of belief in the doctrine of her bodily assumption . . . We profoundly regret that the Roman Catholic Church has chosen by this act to increase dogmatic differences in Christendom and has thereby gravely injured the growth of understanding between Christians...
First & Third Degree. Along the wall a guard of honor was drawn up-a dozen boys and young men in rumpled Stetsons. The smallest, aged 14, whose head barely reached above my thigh, beat a drum; the tallest, who came up to my chin, proudly carried an old but carefully polished rifle. This was a detachment of Bai Trang's Anti-Communist Youth and Children's Leagues...
...Francisco. Out came the passengers-18 women, 24 children, 4 soldiers-muscles stiff from the long 7,000-mile ride from Tokyo. In the airfield's noisy, sprawling, glass-walled building, the children found a haven under the protection of Operation Recess; volunteer nurses popped the smallest in cribs, kept the bigger ones busy with comic books. A few of the women belonged to Operation Raven, the Air Force's sardonic tag for the widows of men killed in Korea...
...having been heavy since the Korean war started, but the booming economy had set off price rises long before that. Traders argued that scarcity, not speculative buying & selling alone, had also boosted prices. The commodities which have been most heavily traded in the past two months have had the smallest price rise; e.g., the 128% jump in egg trading has produced only a 5.4% price increase...
...these great events was only dimly heard in Wu's classroom. Wu was a bright pupil. Because he was the smallest boy in his class, he was invariably seated in the first row where he could get a better view of the blackboard. Next to him in the front row usually sat a mandarin's son named Chou Enlai...