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to conduct secret seminars there. She showed extraordinary courage in conducting secret meetings in crowded flats with groups of philosophers. Despite her large frame and ungainly walk, she would lead the secret policemen who followed her on wild goose chases through Slavic cities, unconcerned by
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and family to
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manuscripts. With her western friends, she created the Jan Hus
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in two major works and many articles in professional journals. As a conscientious college tutor, she won the respect and affection of her students and academic colleagues. Her most notable contribution lay in her clandestine activities behind the
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who took her as his model of the
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to the West knowing that the slightest traffic infringement would bring down the law. Back in
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