Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief value of the League of Nations is that it provides a consultative body where everyone can air his grievances," said Canon Scott, when asked whether he thought the League would prevent future wars. "Most wars are caused by people not stopping to consider long enough. The League provides time for consideration, and for this reason is important...
That the war made saints of soldiers, Canon Scott denied, but it was his impression that the war caused each man to feel that there was some mysterious power to which he owed allegiance. "Duty was the all-impelling force which made the men go through what they did, and it really makes little difference whether you interpret religion as duty...
...human fecundity. The change from large to small families is not to be impatiently condemned. Victories in medicine and hygiene may be disastrous for public welfare unless the desire for many children, which is natural and until recently laudable, is held in check." The same evening, the local vicar, Canon F. C. N. Hicks, mounted the pulpit, declared he could not let the Bishop's words go unchallenged: "I disagree profoundly with that teaching; I myself abide by the teaching of the Church." The incident had no immediate consequences for the reason that Brighton is not in the diocese...
...breach of tradition. There seems to have been general sympathy with this protest; for the Americans have always tried to be a legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname of Ku Klux Klan, a corruption of an old wrestling term "Catch-as-catch...
...Arizona, an expedition sent by Edward L. Doheny, oil man, found pictures of dinosaurs, American elephants, prehistoric deer and men, scratched in the "desert varnish" (black iron scale) on a vertical, red sandstone canon wall...