Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bell's explanation: "The separation of Church and State in the schools, and the astounding incompetence of most of the churches in respect" to religious education, and the indifference of parents to God, have combined to turn out a group of young people composed, to the extent of about 80%, of religious illiterates...
...Bernard Iddings Bell, in the current Harper's, answers the sanguine who believe that World War II will turn U.S. fighting men into peacetime churchgoers. Dr. Bell, High-Church Episcopalian priest, author of the caustic Church in Disrepute (TIME, Feb. 22), takes no stock in the no-atheists-in-foxholes idea, quotes a chaplain that if the saying is true it is only "because there are few atheists anywhere." On the lack of religious interest among men in the forces, Dr. Bell sides with the realistic fighting-front report brought back by World's Christian Endeavor Union President...
Publicity-wise Ray Dumont last week swore he was in earnest. He promised that the Congress' National Tournament in August will test his both-ways base running. Said he: "Any new idea . . . always receives a cold reception. . . . They said Alexander Graham Bell had bells ringing in his belfry...
...this week began, no U.S. Army officer of sufficient rank had spoken. But Boeing compromised anyway; officials turned off the loud speaker and bonged the bell softly, for Boeing ears only...
...Whom the Bell Tolls (Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Katina Paxinou; TIME...