Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contraceptives, Pope Pius XI says: 'The act of wedlock is . . . designed for the procreation of offspring and therefore those who . . . deprive it of its natural power and efficacy, act against nature and do something which is shameful and intrinsically immoral.' It is the common teaching of Catholic theologians that contraceptive intercourse, whether with the aid of instruments or not, is not consummation of marriage...
...what the U.S. felt it needed as assurance that ERP would not be a running drain on the U.S. taxpayer. The bill did not attempt to ram conditions down Europe's throat. It simply expressed "the hope . . . that these countries through a joint organization will exert sustained common efforts which will speed the achievement of that economic cooperation which is essential for lasting peace and prosperity...
...Common Defense. What Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King had done at their Easter conference in 1941 was to solemnize the economic marriage of the U.S. and Canada. Mackenzie King had used martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...
...other great failure of Protestantism, says Niebuhr, lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...
...only two undefeated college basketball teams kept their slates clean. New York University won its 16th straight and Columbia made it 14 in a row. Though both are New York City teams, they are not on each other's schedules, and until last week had no victims in common. But last week, partisans who wondered how N.Y.U.'s fast-break game would fare against Columbia's slow, deliberate attack had something to argue about. Cornell, which had dropped two games (by 61 to 48 and 58 to 53) to N.Y.U. earlier in the season, lost a closer...