Word: cataclysmic
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Bishop Brent put the argument on a far higher plane. Paganism is rising, the non-Christian East is threatening: "That we may be prepared, and that our children may be prepared, against a cataclysm which, if it ever comes, will overshadow what we went through in the World War, we must have unity of the Christion people. We cannot, in all loyalty to the heart and mind of Christ, reject this opportunity for unity. We will either have that unity or we will have the unity which shall come if we wait until we are driven...
...pessimistic about this business of women's suffrage. I know it will not bring a cataclysm, but I do not believe it will bring much good, or, in fact, change matters much...
...hard-won victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...
...Battenberg, on a slumming party, went to hear him. Warmed by the lager, or pleased with the song, the Teuton princeling profered ten cents. Baline, unaccustomed to the ways of royalty, staggered back. The riff-raff stared; up stepped a ruddy reporter, overawed both Prince and waiter with a cataclysm of questions. Next day, Berlin received his first publicity. The reporter, one Herbert Bayard Swope, now edits The New York World...
Premier Benito Mussolini's first appearance in the Chamber of Deputies since his brief illness (TIME, Mar. 2, 30) was greeted with a Fascist cataclysm of exuberance, somewhat marred by the Communists, who staged a counter-demonstration...