Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still forces a reappraisal of the entire age of exploration, from the year 1000, when Leif Ericsson and his men were blown ashore on the North American coast, to the late 16th century, when Europeans were exploring the waters of Asia, Africa and America. The map throws further doubt on the legend that Columbus was sailing into completely mysterious and uncharted seas when he set out with his small fleet in 1492. Instead, it appears possible that the Viking voyages may have served as an incentive to Columbus and Cabot and other rediscoverers of America in the 15th century...
...changed in 1869 when Charles William Eliot assumed the Presidency of Harvard. At the first Faculty meeting after Eliot's inauguration, the president walked into the room, sat down at the head of the table, and called the meeting to order--an unheard-of action that left no doubt of his intention to assume command. There followed a revolution that set Harvard medicine (and American medicine) on its present course...
...children were not to blame! Your sectarianism may be less crude than at the Rhode Island college, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free use of accumulating knowledge or other evidence which disproves or casts doubt on the basic sectarian commitment...
...hell, of that there can be no doubt. But there should also be no doubt that the protesting students are NOT questioning our soldier's fighting ability, nor his courage or conviction. Rather, in their haste to indicate their abhorrence and hate of war they mistakenly attack the symptoms of war (Marines arriving by train in San Francisco for embarkation to Vietnam) instead of attacking the causes of war (breakdown of diplomacy and communications; ignorance and poverty; charismatic and poor leadership; adherence to diehard, hard-line communism; desire for the better things of life which the normal and present channels...
...lives in Selma are filled with ambiguity, and in that we share with men everywhere. We are beginning to see the world as we never saw it before. We are truly in the world, and yet ultimately not of it. For through the bramble bush of doubt and fear and supposed success we are grouping our way to the realization that above all else, we are called to be saints. That is the mission the Church everywhere. And in this, Selma, Alabama is like all the world: it needs the life and witness of militant Saints...