Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Sperry's group, which meets on Friday evenings, is considering "Some of the Obstacles to Religions Faith," next time with particular reference to "Evil." professor Bixler's group, which meets the first Monday evening of the month, is working on "The Philosophies of the Good Life of Various Men." such as William James and Buddha...
Increasingly an advocate of church unity, Baptist Rockefeller best stated his case in a speech in 1927: "I have seemed to see in my mind's eye the forces of evil drawn up on one side in closely compacted ranks, standing solidly together with complete understanding and cooperating fully. And on the other side of the picture I see the forces of righteousness, the Christian men and women of this land, huddled together in some scores of pitifully small groups, each more interested in seeking to increase the consumption of his own particular brand of denominationalism or sectarianism than...
Harvard has taken the lead in remedying this evil, and her board of admission, under Mr. Gummere and Dean Leighton, has made vast strides in reaching a working agreement with the leading preparatory and high schools. This year 300 freshmen have been admitted to advanced courses and the next years will see that number increased. If Harvard continues her efforts to correlate the work done before and after the entrance examinations, she will set an example which will prove a great step forward in American education...
...other newspapers, and on Sunday in the Herald Tribune and 72 others, he croaks fearfully against the New Deal. He is an able analyst and expositor, well grounded in orthodox economics, a diligent, honest newsgatherer. But not even his great & good friend Herbert Hoover outdoes him in bemoaning the evil days on which the land has fallen, in prophesying worse days to come unless citizens return to the tried & true ways of their fathers. Last fortnight he characteristically gloomed: "So much of what is being done to America is tragic...
...other words the Union is merely to increase goodness and fairness and freedom, and to diminish evil and injustices and "reaction." Any man who does not support this ideal sort of organization is obviously a naughty, unsocial, unprincipled, Reactionnary...