Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People have not imagined that they have seen saucers in the last five years. They did see strange shapes in the sky, and their immediate reaction was that the shapes were space ships from another planet. "Why", Menzel asks, "have so many civilized people chosen to adopt such an uncivilized attitude toward the flying saucers?" He presents three reasons...
This last doctrine led the Society to adopt a pacifist stand, and it played an obstreperous part in the thirties...
What Is Religion? "We have been treating religion ... as if it were a mere attitude one can adopt towards life. The truth is that the word 'religion' under the Christian dispensation has changed its meaning. It . . . stands for a transaction if you will, for the paying off of a debt . . . Religion in our sense is a claim: the claim which God has upon us for worship of whatever kind, and in whatever currency He demands . . . Don't let us imagine that any code of conduct, keeping our word, or controlling our senses, or being kind towards...
When the priest asked parishioners to "adopt" the graves of Americans in the nearby U.S. Military Cemetery at Margraten, The Netherlands, Harry Van Der Tuyn thought it might be a small but altogether fitting means of repaying the liberators of his country. At first his soldier was unknown to Van Der Tuyn, except for the name Pfc. Edward John Magee on the plain white marker...
...cleared himself on both counts, explaining that be objected to investigation only because he felt it would be necessary to adopt police state methods in the universities if hidden communists were to be ferreted out. Conant said his article had actually urged youth to return to the American tradition...