Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first season Veeck took over, attendance jumped from 558,182 to over a million; two years later he set a big-league record...
...allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in return would have sole power to regulate school curricula and appoint teachers. Beyond the fact that the proposal would still leave the ownership of the schools in church hands, there was another big string tied to it: the teachers would be subject to Catholic approval "as regards religious belief, character and fitness, and the religious education provided in the school would continue unchanged...
Calvinist Theologian Emil Brunner of Switzerland knows that "Christianity and Civilization" is a big subject. He does not even believe that there has ever been such a thing as a Christian civilization. "What is usually called by that name," he says, "is a compromise between Christian and non-Christian forces." But he chose to tackle the subject because he feels that no civilization can rightly be called "human" that is not based upon Christianity...
...education, work, art, wealth, social custom and power. In putting each in its Christian place, he is not afraid to expose himself to the fire power of experts in the various fields. He tells scientists that there is nothing wrong with their subject except that it has grown too big for its britches. "Science knows what is, it does not know what ought to be ... Speaking in general, science in our day claims more room within the totality of human life than it is entitled to. Instead of serving, it dominates; instead of subordinating itself, it wants to subordinate...
...after day, the Scripps papers thundered in behalf of mild-mannered Angus Ward, ridiculing the Red accusation that he had beaten up a Chinese servant, as akin to "saying Gandhi was a big bully." Under the sarcastic caption, THE EAGLE SCREAMS, Cartoonist...