Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apostasy to the violation of Christ's marriage law." The head of Britain's Methodist Conference granted the Princess' right to marry a divorced man. but he was no less firm than the Anglicans in denying Margaret and her prospective issue the right to ascend the throne...
Semantic Denials. Unabashed, Pastor Crist tried to justify many of his denials by semantics (on the Ascension: "Ascend means to go up ... Where is up?"), insisted that all his teachings constituted "a permissible point of view within the Lutheran Church." Some Lutheran synods permit liberal interpretations of the Augsburg Confession, the 16th century work embodying basic Lutheran beliefs. But the Northwest Synod, although one of the more liberal U,S: Lutheran groups, clearly faced in Crist's teaching a threat to its basic tenets...
Clarke's plan, hatched while Louis Wolfson launched his unsuccessful bid to control the company, was to arrange a merger with Allied Stores Corp. It seemed like a natural: Allied had young executives and expansion plans; Ward had the cash. Avery could announce the deal and ascend gracefully into the honorary chairmanship, assured that Ward was safe from Wolfson...
...incapacity. As such, she would continue to be an important political figure until Charles, now 4, becomes 18. If the act were changed (as Elizabeth wishes) to make Philip the regent, Margaret would become merely another heir (the third in line) to a throne she is not likely to ascend...
LECTURES: Five men lectured alternately to '55, while '56 will see an even half dozen ascend the platform. Nearly everyone who took the course found the lectures, given once a week with two sections, consistently interesting. The lecturers won almost universal praise for their fresh approach, enthusiasm, variety, and general competence. On the other side of the ledger, some felt that the material was delivered too rapidly, that the bulk of the material was too often merely factual. However, all throught that the lectures were very well organized and therefore easy to take notes on. '55 found the background material...