Word: agelong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today the progress of science . . . has torn to pieces our agelong habits...
...Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur with Mr. Rockefeller's evaluation. . . . The church [should] withdraw from the Federal Council, if the Council maintains and does not repudiate its seeming approval...
...reached a decisive stage. . . . The enemy must be destroyed. . . . The situation in Attu was . . . very regrettable. ... It depressed his Imperial Majesty a little. It is Japan's immutable policy to .free Greater Asia from agelong Anglo-Saxon domination. . . . Enemy plans for a counteroffensive have been foreseen. . . . We are meeting them wherever they come. . . ." There was much more, but still nothing to explain convoking the nation's No. 1 sounding board...
...bewilderment of men who are living through the apparently irrational collapse of a great civilization, "the happiest," says Chamberlin, "and certainly the most creative in the history of Europe." The sense of irrationality is all the greater because this civilization did not decay like Rome or Byzantium by agelong stages of dry rot, but apparently cracked up suddenly and catastrophically, like an incomparable machine shak en to pieces by the super-power of its own superb engines...