Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are only five good men and the Council of a city of Cambridge's size needs more. But the absence of any one of these men from the Council would make a weaker Cambridge and might see the return of the corruption which marred the Council before the advent...
...guess is that this great development . . . will in some fashion be connected, by future interpreters, with the advent of an age of mass action, mass production and mass psychology in American life. From being one of the most unorganized, the most invertebrate of nations in 1860, we have grown into the most powerfully and efficiently organized people on the globe . . . Our thinking in 1864 was still individual thinking. Today it is largely mass thinking, shaped and colored by mass media of unparalleled and sometimes dismaying potency . . . Our national outlook, once that of the individualistic pioneer, has become a social outlook...
...With the advent of three-dimensional films, the motion picture industry has made giant strides. Such great strides, in fact, that it is now right back where it started fifty years...
...reason for having such a course should be examined. Surely you remember the days when a full course in creative writing was required of all newcomers? With the advent of General Education courses, English A has been squeezed out of the picture, but the basic need of first-year college students to practise "creative writing" (that writing done without research but as the product of one's imagination along lines suggested by experienced English instructors), still exists. It is a fact worthy of additional consideration...
...will mean a saving of $1,000 for a prelate who has to outfit himself from scratch. Specifically, the Pope has ordered : 1) that the fantail on both purple and red cassocks be eliminated, 2) that purple robes, which are used in time of mourning and during Lent and Advent, be made of wool instead of silk (the scarlet formal dress will continue to be made of silk), 3) that the six-yard train on the cappa magna, the long ceremonial cape which cardinals wear, be shortened to three yards...