Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been called an "immaculate materialist." He accepts universal mechanism as he accepts his friends' names, but finds it capable of such infinite variation, color, beauty, that it satisfies his poet's soul, just as the Catholic Church moves him esthetically without for an instant compelling his belief. He expresses the vestiges of Classicism in the U. S., modernizing Aristotle...
There is a small, dark, steelyeyed, supple man, whom statesmen often dub "the first diplomat in Europe," whose accomplishments would stagger belief were they not chronicled in post-War history books. Dr. Edouard Benes*; was an essential instrument in: 1) The partition of Austria-Hungary after the War. 2) The creation of Czechoslovakia as a state. 3) The drafting of the League Protocol. And in the creation of the Little Entente (See INTERNATIONAL, p. 9) his was the master hand...
...they do the superiority of Catholicism to natural boundaries. Another fruit they bear is the strengthening of faith of the wavering. Mass, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mystery, Sacrifice, Love Feast-the Eucharist has many appellations according to its different aspects* it is at the very centre of Catholic belief. It yields nothing to the allied mystery of the Trinity. The very body and blood of Jesus are in both the consecrated wafer and the wine. Catholics can think of no means too simple or too subtle to honor...
...Office and its functionaries, followed by condemned heretics and penitents. Mass was celebrated and all present-including the King of Spain-took an oath of obedience to the Holy Inquisition. Finally the Grand Inquisitor delivered a sermon and read out the sentences of condemnation and acquittal. Contrary to general belief, the condemned were not burned during the auto-da-fe proper, but were handed over to the civil power, by which they were exterminated hours or days later...
Inclined to the belief that schools which concern themselves solely with the development of military or naval officers are becoming more and more impotent in matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without...