Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children as sufficient fulfillment of a function whose far-reaching potency and value it is impossible to exaggerate." Discussion of this subject is likely to remain in England; but it is thought unlikely that the Church of England will permit it to become an ecclesiastical issue. Birth control is anathema to all Catholics, and any discussion of it would seriously aggravate the Anglo-Catholic problem with which the Church of England is now confronted. Both Bishop Barnes and Dean Inge, sponsors of birth control, are more interested in confounding the aims of Anglo-Catholics than in spreading the extra-ecclesiastical...
...however, rigid as is party discipline, a large number of stray votes are sure to be cast. Candidate Marx is a Catholic lawyer and leader of the Catholic Party, which, because the House of Hohenzollern is Protestant, is not espousing the Monarchist cause. As a Catholic, he will be anathema to many Protestants, atheists and extreme Socialists, who may well swell the Communist vote or fail to ballot altogether. It is fair to assume, however, that a very large majority of Socialists will place the Republican cause (not imminently threatened, for the Monarchists do not intend to change immediately...
Many stories are told: A minister was dismissed from the house of one of his elders with that elder's wife's anathema ringing in his ears. "You are a thief, sir; you are trying to steal our property-you are a traitor to the Presbyterian Church-you're not a Presbyterian at all; you're not even an honest...
...site and sweep the Corporation into renewed conference. The Committee on Architectural Plans was to meet with, hear the views of, other elements of the college. Meantime, building was suspended. The new dormitory, dubbed by the Yale Daily News "Hush Hall," because of the "secrecy" attending its advent, was anathema because it was to copy and stand beside old Connecticut Hall, traditional shrine...
...Eliott's record in the financial world must make him, as a leader of education, anathema to Mr. Sinclair. As the ex-president and chairman of the directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad, as director of the Western Telegraph Company and of the National Security Company and as "a member of the executive committee of numerous other public service corporations", Mr. Eliott has a series of titles which link him unquestionably with "big business". And it is to such corporate interests that Mr. Sinclair objects when they take our educational institutions under their wings...