Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the State got through Oshkin had put into the sugar not only sand but powdered glass. He and his eleven accomplices, allegedly "Tsarists & kulaks at heart," were charged with "holding back fresh meat and vegetables until they spoiled" and generally conspiring to give the Moscow Restaurant Trust an evil, stinking name. After five days five culprits, including Soup Saboteur Oshkin Mikkhail, were sentenced to "the highest form of social protection-death by shooting." Six accomplices got prison terms of from 18 months to eight years, one was acquitted. Russia faced a grave food shortage last winter at the time...
Looked at disinterestedly the tempest is amusing. Of course these subscribers do not mean all they say and must realize it after they have expressed themselves. Neither sex has a corner on good or evil or ignorance or knowledge...
...hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed, a committee petitioned fat King Fuad to "save Moslems from the evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue tax exemption to missionary institutions, withdraw subsidies for mission schools. One hundred and fifty thousand pounds would be saved annually for State schools and welfare work. The petition was concurred in by the present rector of Al Azhar University Sheikh Ahmedi...
...transcendent. His universe is unified, well-planned, still in process of evolution. God has a personality like Man's. Dr. Barnes believes Him good but finds evolution disconcerting because God sponsors Sin and Evil. Dr. Barnes leaves the dilemma unresolved...
Religious Experience. Dr. Barnes says he has felt moments of mystical exaltation. He believes religion should include emotion, though in moderation: "The novel entitled Elmer Gantry was written with the exaggeration born of desire to expose an evil; but I fear that in the religious life of America there does exist a misuse, such as its author describes, of emotion which ought to be held sacred." Dr. Barnes deplores the loss of enthusiasm for conversion in British churches. Unless they recapture it they will die. "Churches die of respectability just as they become a nuisance through superstition. Conversion takes...