Word: convert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Judge Clarke, running antiWorld Court for the United States Senate in California, was once pro-World Court. You fail to observe that Mr. Shortridge, running pro- international against Judge Clarke, got to Washington by promising to the anti-international one hundred per cent. Each man is a convert. The real question...
...History is what men have tacitly agreed shall be the truth." So commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler, valet, "head-man," recently in Collier's sketched an intimate portrait of the Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after...
...made to define a Baptist Church as one composed of immersed persons. This would exclude Dr. Harry E. Fosdick's church, now abuilding (TIME, Feb. 22). Most Christians these days are baptized symbolically by a few drops of water. The Baptist Church advocates total im mersion of the convert in water, either in natural surroundings as in the River Jordan, or in a pool in a church...
...second William Belden Noble lecture of the year will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson D. Reverend Henry D. A. Major, Principal of Ripon Hall. Oxford, England will speak on "The Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes, Which Convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist...
...Major, founder of the "Modern Churchman" fifteen years ago and since then its editor, will treat his subject under the following heads; the Larger Modernism: English Modernism and its Immediate Predecessors: the Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes which convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist; Modernism and New Truth; Modernist; Reconstruction: Modernism and Miracles: Modernism and Jesus Christ: Modernism and the Creeds: Modernism and the Future...