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...night William, remembering Marguerite, wrote a letter asking her to come to New Zealand and marry him. It was quite a shock to him when Marianne arrived instead, carrying a reticule and a parrot. As usual, William had got the sisters' names twisted. But he was too much of a gentleman...
...morning to replace lost rations and then go to the Town Hall to get her glasses replaced. But two hours later the local warden came to the factory looking for me to say Kit's in a house up the road all collapsed again. Sort of delayed shock, I suppose you might call it. So I packed Andrew up and took them both down to Puddleston...
Despite the shock to many a High Churchman, London's Church Times took a relatively calm view. "The question," it observed, "whether women are capable of receiving holy orders presents a complicated theological problem to which no easy answer can be given. Without doubt the matter will be brought up for consideration at the next Lambeth Conference, and equally without doubt the Conference will declare that this act was eminently well-pleasing to God and must never be repeated...
...report on the provisions and subsequent restrictions due to the passage of Title V of the Soldier Vote Act (TIME, July 10) came as a shock to many servicemen...
...Shock Absorber No. 2. Since the U.S. will in any event have to supply most of the postwar loans made for reconstruction and development, the effect of the Bank will be to make the rest of the world foot the bill for over 65% of the losses, if any. Aside from the obvious American gain under this arrangement, the world gets a profit too. For, with the Bank's guarantee, lenders can afford to lend more than they otherwise might. Thus there will be $9.1 billion of capital available for reconstruction and development by the countries which need...