Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholicism, the "right" embraces in turn the orthodox churches: Anglicanism, Lutheranism and Presbyterianism. Proceeding from the opposite end of the line at the extreme "left," we find the Friends, the Baptists, the Disciples of Christ, the Congregationalists, other smaller bodies sprung from the "radical Reformation," and the Methodists ; these account for well over 40% of the World Council's membership. In the center, uniting within their membership churches of both "right" and "left," stand a whole group of "united" churches-the United Church of Canada, the Church of Christ in Japan, the Evangelical Church of the Philippines, the United...
...making ethical demands on economic institutions. Christians "must take account of the importance of efficiency and productivity ... as essential marks of a sound economy...
...Clem Attlee as gullible as he seems? It is hard to tell from his curious, deadpan way of writing and speaking. His sentences frequently end on a tentative note, as if the point will come in the next paragraph. He can be bafflingly bland. Sample (from his autobiographical account of his first trip to Moscow in 1936): "Unfortunately, my visit preceded by a few weeks the big purges, which removed a number of [the leading men] I had contacted, notably Marshal Tukhachevski." Attlee could walk with Dante through hell and emerge remarking that "different people had different tastes...
...Portuguese conquered the Dutch colony of Recife on the coast of Brazil in 1654, they gave the Jewish settlers the same terms as the Protestant Dutch: accept the Roman Catholic faith or get out. Some of the Recife Jews who chose to get out were (according to one account) captured by pirates on the high seas, then rescued by the French privateer St. Charles. In September...
...cousin of Bertrand Russell, and a great-great-grandniece of Sir Robert Peel.* In prison Author Henry was called "the lidy," and told, "You talk lovely, but it don't get you far, do it, if you end up here?" But she turned her experience to good account with Women in Prison, a 1952 British bestseller, and now with Yield to the Night, which, though falling short of the tragedy it might have been, is a powerful argument against capital punishment...