Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fully understand the nature of this controversy, which has been raging in the newspapers off and on ever since last April, it is necessary to go back to 1940 when St. Benedict's Center was founded. Among the four people who started it as a religious and social meeting place for Catholics from Harvard, Radcliffe, and neighboring colleges were Christopher Huntington '32, then assistant dean of Freshmen, and Avery Dulles '40, son of Senator John Foster Dulles...
...night of the thirteenth these four men went to the newspapers and accused Boston College of teaching a heresy, namely: "that there might be salvation outside of the Catholic Church; that a man might be saved without admitting that the Roman is supreme among churches; and that he might be saved without submission to the Pope...
...from decreasing the value of the Seminar, however, the greater congeniality among the students from 16 European countries has made possible a franker and loss hesitant approach to all aspects of American life and to questions of American policy in Europe...
...open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they could not be answered...
This enigmatic tree-dweller (Whose sex could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously...