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Word: bretheren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a membership of 16, the Conservative League preserves the tradition of its departed bretheren, the New Conservative League and the Conservative Club. "Though still searching for an ideology," commented president Hastings Wyman '61, "our group would in general support right-to-work laws, and express serious reservations about the UN." Regarding Eisenhower as "too liberal," the League has dined with an associate of Gen. MacArthur, and hopes Bill Buckley of the National Review will speak to them this Spring...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Leadership Elite' Speaks For Political Clubs | 3/27/1959 | See Source »

...unto you, bretheren, that such men who are daunted by the blindness of lost souls, such men are hypocrites and Pharisees and sophisticates. They know not of the secret workings of Providence; they are men of little faith. If our forefathers had left freedom to the slave, would there ever have been the Great War? If the people of the West, like great stones, stand oblivious of the seed, we must hack at them until they crumble. The first apostles were never deterred by lack of interest; know, friends, the dramatic power of martyrdom at the hands of the savages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Into the Wilderness | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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