Word: difference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular credo of the Southern Baptists is perhaps less familiar. The old notions - the Bible belt, temperance leagues, hellfire evangelism and fundamentalism-are still part of the Southern Baptist scheme of things, but they are growing increasingly oldfashioned. Aside from the obvious issue of racial integration. Southern Baptists differ from their Northern brethren mainly in that 1) they are more distrustful of ecumenical movements, are reluctant to join any other Christian denomination for any purpose, 2) they tend to favor closed Communion for 'those of like faith and order" rather than open Communion. But nonconformity is the Baptist hallmark...
None of us want an atomic war, although we may differ on the means of best avoiding one. Many, including this writer, feel that any attempt to ease existing world tensions must take into account the actual and quite basic differences that divide East and West. Such an attempt, therefore, faces a long and difficult journey, and its success depends, to a large extent, on the willingness of the Eastern leaders to cooperate. Others, including the leaders of SANE, perhaps seeking a shorter and easier road to peace, advocate the cure-all of disarmament, either by a unilateral effort...
...Nigeria we hail thee,/ Our own dear native land,/ Though tribe and tongue may differ,/ In brotherhood we stand...
...nearly everything else, however, the countries differ widely, and a "bold new venture" that would rescue one would be just as likely to suffocate another. They differ, for instance, in "absorbtive capacity"; foreign capital can build a dam in the Indus River Basin or at Aswan, but if it tries to build a railroad where no one knows how to--or no one wants to--build railroads, a lot of money will go to waste in abortive projects and in the television sets that grace the living rooms of members of the local congresses. The question of allocation of resources...
...system they use is not well understood, but it is known that one kind of fish can detect a current of two one-hundred-billionths of an ampere per square centimeter of its body. Its electronic sensing permits it to discriminate between glass rods in its tank that differ in diameter by less than one-tenth of an inch. Study of these talented fish could pay off richly in electronic ideas...