Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant expressed his confidence that future humanities professors will be able to bring about the necessary shift of emphasis in arts and letters from the more memorization of "the current gilded dogma" to a relation of the humanities "to the personal problems of man and the welfare of modern society...
...decision which might well be called the Great Compromise of the new Constitution lies in the section dealing with the appointive-elective issue. The Committee, in spite of what must have been great popular pressure, resisted the completely elective dogma and instead significantly revised downward the proportion of appointed men on their new Council. Only three of nineteen members will henceforth be appointed...
...international calamity, for the proposals of the country's new leaders' portend actions that will speak louder and harsher than the sweetly-phrased statements of American delegates at the United Nations. The extreme movement right in a world going left widens the breach between political ideologies and dogma, but the economic necessities of one world will always remain...
...very few of us see Him clearly, because our knowledg is shrouded in mysticism and superstition. How many of our young people shrug off the entire subject of religion simply because they have had no opportunity for clear thinking along these lines? If we could but once separate the dogma of worship from the necessary basic understanding of the origins and growth of religion, I believe most people would begin thinking about it as a part of their own lives...
When fire broke out in an elevator shaft of the downtown Leader Building, the canvassers stopped firemen rushing in to quench the flames, handed them pamphlets describing the coming destruction of the world by fire which is part of the Witnesses' dogma...