Word: circularity
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Shortly before Pope Pius XII published the decree, Czech Communists had taken another step in their assault on Prague's Archbishop Beran and his hierarchy. In a memorandum signed by Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky, plans were made to build up a government-controlled national church. Another circular detailed punishments for priests who had read Beran's pastoral letters denouncing Communist persecution of the church. "Finally," said the circular, "we shall accuse [the Catholic hierarchy] directly of high treason...
...semi-circular stone benches, similar to those which supplemented the Dudley Gate, will flank the sundial and bear the inscriptions of the original benches. These read, "One of thy founders him New England know who staid thy feeble sides when thou wast low" and "who spent his state his strength and years with care that after comers in them might have share...
Well aware of what had happened to Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran nevertheless decided to talk back. In a circular letter made public last week, Josef Beran, veteran of Dachau, charged that the government was silencing the Catholic press, that church collections had been prohibited in many places, and that church schools were being "liquidated step by step." Said the archbishop: "The Catholic Church should enjoy the absolute freedom to which it has a right, both God-given and guaranteed by the existing Constitution...
...geologists, Dr. Frank Reeves and N. B. Sauve of the Vacuum Oil Co., spotted the crater from an airplane. What they saw was a circular depression more than half a mile across and 100 ft. deep, with a splashed-out looking rim. In general appearance it looked much like Arizona's meteor crater (570 ft. deep, four-fifths of a mile in diameter...
...exhibiting the photograph Following the Master (see cut), "despite protests from all over Britain." The Mail charged that "1) it offends the religious susceptibilities of Christian people . . .; 2) the way the saw is being operated conflicts with all the modern rules of safe carpentry; 3) there were no circular saws in New Testament days...