Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another instance of how the Roman Catholic Church has flourished for so long: by fostering religious orders suited to the times-Benedictines in the Dark Ages to give a Christian meaning to manual labor, Franciscans in the 13th Century to offset the Church's luxury, Jesuits in the 16th Century to lead the Counter-Reformation...
Last week a cynical 20th-century warlord used 16th-Century emotions to turn a conquest into a crusade...
...much too serious for that. The Babe, now 47 and 30 Ib. heavier than in his heyday, put his 230 Ib. behind each tee shot, outdrove Cobb on nearly every hole. Cobb, 54, played a characteristically crafty short game. His brilliant putting stole hole after hole. On the 16th green, he won the match, 3 and 2. Finishing the 18 holes to please the gallery, Cobb's medal score was 81, Ruth...
...Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with the thought that his work helped overpower the terrible, infidel Turks. In Britain...
...your editorial of the 16th against poll taxes it seems to me you have overlooked a very important fact--that democracy is effective only when the electors are educated. The ten million disfranchised citizens in the South you speak of are, I believed you will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem...