Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: "Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial to denial, rendering ever more intense in many souls that follow the invitation of truth a homesickness for returning to Catholicism...
...Russia and China by identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply at all and to observe to correspondents: "Between co-signatories of the Pact, it can never be rightly thought unfriendly that one nation call to the attention of another its obligations or the dangers to peace which may from time to time arise...
...that experimental work in that field is receiving recognition. The training of the mind is an essential element in modern life, and attention must not be given exclusively to the actual mechanics of educating. The problems of how and why are every bit as important and it is the answer to the questions that arise in the latter connection with which the School of Education is concerned. Any assistance that is given to help to accomplish this aim is a well directed and intelligent aid to the modern educational situation...
After spending a quiet Juma, your Turkish official comes down to the foreign office bright and early Jumartesi, only to find that London, Paris and New York are in no mood to answer his cables because they are knocking off for Saturday afternoon. The next day, Pazar, third day of the Turkish week, is simply hopeless for the poor official, because throughout Christendom it is Sunday...