Word: dogmas
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...General Counsel William A. Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead of vegetarian dogma Childs sponsored a noisy campaign to "Eat all you can for 60?." After an unsuccessful trial this also was dropped like a hot pancake. Really successful, however, was tie next major change, a change which has put dollars into the pockets of many a restaurant man from coast to coast-installation...
...this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over any creed, custom, dogma...
...some distinction and the author of Butler's biography-a first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without resorting to a theory of natural selection-the weakest element of Darwin's case...
...have been developed for the term "fireside chat". For a meeting of minds of a high intellectual caliber on a field of common interest, where ideas are exchanged freely and no one attempts to play ringleader or bully recalcitrant thinkers into jumping through the hoops of his own individual dogma, is a refreshing change from the drama the nation has been witnessing in Washington. The Council of Government Concentrators has inaugurated a mode of informal debate peculiarly fitted to the Harvard--and the democratic --ideal of freedom of discussion...
...latter have won their equality. Dr. Wooley's attitude sorely hurts her own cause, for not only does she act in an unsportsmanlike way, but she tells the world that her group of women are rather unsure of their position, are sensitive and touchy about acceptance of their dogma...