Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRESHMAN SQUASH--Minor Numerals 1953--Thomas R. Bartle, Malcolm H. Bell, Charles F. Elliott, John J. Glessner, 3rd; Berkeley D. Johnson, Jr., John L. Pratt, Michael L. Riesner, Edward W. Sexton, Jr., Charles W. Ufford, Jr., David Watts, Pendleton P. White, and Arthur O. Stein, Manager...
...Social Club. Such "churchianity," says Bell, has been an especially besetting sin of Episcopalians: "The Episcopal Church, by and large, has tended too much to exalt itself and minimize God." The disease, as Canon Bell describes it, was partly inherited from the nation's founders, who, in Virginia and other colonies, treated the Church as "a conventional meeting place of the better-off landowners." The 19th Century waves of non-English immigrants, he feels, only made matters a little worse, because in the mixed society that resulted the Episcopalians soon came to regard themselves as patricians...
...Bell quotes a letter received recently from a friend who had moved to a new parish: "The church here has everything, from an exquisite chapel to a gymnasium and a manual-training shop for young Episcopalians to enjoy themselves in. There is money all over the place . . . It's impressive all right; but ... it seems more like a social club." There are many such rich parishes, writes Bell, in which Christ is genteelly revered and His upsetting utterances muffled. "The vulgarity of the Gospels is concealed by the quaintness of the King James version; the dynamite of the Eucharist...
...Warning. In the Episcopal Church, Canon Bell finds some encouraging signs that there is less churchianity. But it seems to him that another branch of Christianity, the ecumenical movement, "is plainly being tempted to go in for it in a large...
...Nevis cyclotron is not only the most powerful; it even sounds different. Like most big atomic machines, it is guarded by Geiger counters to measure its radioactivity. Counters often ring a bell at intervals. An imaginative young scientist fixed the ones at Nevis to make a woeful sound like a baby chick that has lost its mother...