Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglass who directed the China survey for the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry last week stuck to his conclusions-that after a century of evangelism China, with perhaps 400,000,000 population, has no more than 400,000 members of Protestant churches, perhaps another 400,000 Christians who belong to no congregation and 2,489,000 Roman Catholics; that Protestant Church membership has fallen off 50,000 to 75,000 in recent years. Declared Dr. Douglass: "Christians who combine the spiritual and the social are needed [in China], especially to plan and demonstrate and set up norms for religious...
...self-respecting Spiritualist is a religious person. He may belong to any one of half a dozen Spiritualist organizations and hold to his private religious or ethical beliefs, but he is sure to trust in life after death and communication between two worlds by means of mediums. To become a Spiritualist minister and be designated "Reverend" he must be high-school educated and take a three-year course (in residence or by correspondence) at a school in London, Los Angeles or Whitewater...
...bride was a Brahman, highest of the four Hindu castes.* The Gandhis belong to the Vaishya or shopkeeper caste. While many marvelled, Devadas Gandhi knelt before a roaring fire in a ceremony of purification, was married by a saffron-robed priest who mumbled that henceforth he would be entitled to worship and act as a Brahman. Hindus in the audience knew that no matter what the priest said Devadas Gandhi will always be considered a Vaishya...
...could see in deposit guarantee. He and many another expect that 1) once deposit guarantee is in effect, the public will withdraw its money from "uninsured"' banks, so 2) all banks will be forced to come in. therefore 3) by July 1936 all U. S. banks will belong to the Federal Reserve System...
...colonies are divided into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These two castes...