Word: biennially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Taft issued an announcement of the 31st biennial session of the General Unitarian Conference, to be held in Cleveland, Oct. 13 to 15. In 1865 the American Unitarian Association gave birth to the National Unitarian Conference, and this year these two bodies are to be reunited in a general reorganization of the Church...
...principal features which the Association is taking over from the Conference is the biennial fall session held at points distant from Boston and devoted to discussion of the spiritual aims of our denominational effort. The biennial conference is increased in importance by the merging of the two bodies. The gathering retains the completely free representative character that has marked its history of more than 60 years and its self-direction by the right to appoint its own committees of arrangements. Its actions, however, have a greater significance than before, in that they are binding in everything except appropriation of funds...
...call upon Unitarians of the United States and Canada to make the first biennial conference of the new and wider fellowship of free churches notable in their history, and to give a demonstration of the devotion of the liberal forces of Christianity to their great cause...
...German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening of the second biennial conference of the World Federation of Educational Associations. Founded in the U. S. in 1923 (TIME, July 2, 9, 16, 1923), headed by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas of Maine, this body promotes world peace by congregating, for handshakes, headshakes and joint resolve, the educators of the world...
Five days before their biennial meet against the combined Harvard-Yale track team, the athletes of Oxford, of Cambridge, landed in the U. S. on wobbly sea-legs...