Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upset. They are faced with a steady and alarming rise in Roman Catholic membership and power in the U.S. Attacking Catholicism is hardly a solution. Instead, Protestant churchmen might try preaching the Holy Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If this were done, Protestantism would again have appeal as true Christianity, and Roman error would naturally be unable to cope with the light of Truth...
Both the Committee on Houses and the Dean of Freshman had recommended rejection of the appeal, which was signed by 1100 upperclassmen and endorsed by the Student Council...
Instead of the usual "vote the CCA slate" appeal to voters, CCA men Crane and DeGuglielmo ran their battles on a "vote No. 1 for me" basis. Political observers close to the campaign scene reported yesterday that opposition developed between a coalition of Crane, DeGuglielmo, and unsuccessful candidate Marcus Morton, and a Mrs. Wise-Bradlee F. Clarke faction...
...North Africa, and installed him in Johannesburg. Faced with schism, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned Morris to withdraw or be considered excommunicated. Morris's answer did not sound as if he intended to give up his bishopric. He threatened to sue the Archbishop of Canterbury for libel and appeal the whole case to the Crown...
...record, on the whole, backs popular opinion, which regards the judges who sent Joan to the stake as villains. It speaks of English bribery and pressure, Joan's imprisonment in a secular rather than an ecclesiastical prison, her lack of counsel, her inability to get an appeal through to Pope Eugene IV. The Rouen trial was full of inconsistencies and irregularities, e.g., after Joan made her famous "abjuration" renouncing her "errors," she was sentenced to life imprisonment, and what actually brought her to the stake was her return to men's clothes after she had promised to give...