Word: attendents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Daily News poll, which had thus far brought in 14,043 replies: 71% believe in a personal God, 72% in personal immortality, 75% in some form of Christianity, 63% regard the Bible as inspired, 71% voluntarily attend religious services regularly, although only 38% accept the Biblical story of creation as historical...
Fortune Gallo, manager of the San Carlo Opera Company in the U. S., postponed the opening of his Manhattan season for a week so that Pietro Mascagni could attend...
...Jason Noble Pierce, minister of the First Congregational Church in Washington, D. C., where Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge attend, where falling plaster once knocked a woman near the President's pew unconscious (TIME, June 21), last week told the Kiwanis Club in Stamford, Conn., that: "Probably four out of five of those who attend the services are not my people but come to the church just to see the President. The fact that we had to extend the seating capacity of the church does not signify a growth in spirituality, but rather an increase in curiosity...
...seems too bad that the President has not a right to attend a church service as a man, instead of being made the centre for all eyes. There is one thing that both his warmest friends and his bitterest enemies must concede to the President, and that is his consistency in church attendance. He is genuine in his attention to his spiritual duties...
Pulling themselves together after the inimitable opening speech of their royal president, smooth Edward of Wales, the august members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting last week in Oxford, deployed about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin...