Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sergeant Matthew McKeon, but I felt the Corps would certainly give him his just punishment. The Corps still had a chance to prove itself. Then came the disgraceful verdict. Such a hue and cry about the poor Sergeant! Isn't the drunken, sadistic murder of six supposedly superior youngsters-isn't that bad conduct...
...young Belgian girl was about to begin her novitiate in an order of nuns whose motto is "Pray and Work," the Superior General gravely warned her: "It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature." Mistaking a will to do good for a vocation to serve God in the cloister, Gabrielle Van der Mal took 17 years to realize that she was not cut out for it. Renunciation of the world did not bring presence of the spirit, and the quest for selflessness became an unwitting...
...This I Cannot Do, O Lord." Labeled an "intellectual snob" by a fellow nun at the School of Tropical Medicines, Gabrielle was asked by her Mother Superior: "Would you, Sister Luke, be big enough, tall enough, to fail your examinations to show humility?" Gabrielle prayed for guidance, but concluded with her own answer: "This I cannot do, O Lord." She graduated fourth in a class of 80. The daughter of a doctor, Gabrielle had fervently hoped to be sent to the Belgian Congo as a missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared...
Meissen china got its start through alchemy, which produced no gold but bred generations of chemists. The kings of Europe regularly hired alchemists not only to try to produce the elusive gold, but also to discover what made Chinese porcelain superior to European kinds. In 1709 an alchemist named Boettger found the secret (based on using kaolin, a white clay that he found in his wig powder). He made the secret known to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Augustus established a ceramics works at Meissen, destined to dominate European porcelain for the next 41 years...
Convent life whirls on at a bewildeing pace and even the mother superior, in her show-stopping song, laments that she can barely keep up with it: "Oh, the very interior life of a Mother Superior/Is not so interior/It's veiled hysterier./The roofs need repairing/The budgets need paring/This pace is driving me wild./If I get to heaven it's because I made twenty-seven/First Fridays when I was a child...