Word: expounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather than in this interview which I dictated." Still on the Embassy payroll for two months' accumulated leave, he announced he was off to the Capital to expound his new gospel...
...organization of the course should be designed to facilitate a close and critical reading of the great works. To this end most of the classes must be section meetings to discuss the books, rather than lectures to expound their meaning. The committee believes that there should be two section meetings each week, and that the fine arts and historical material (to be described later) should be presented in lectures in the remaining period...
Commission-chosen to expound the new canon was Professor Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. His statement that "forgiveness should be characteristic of the Church, and allowance should be made for the individual's attitude," showed what an ecclesiastical revolution widespread divorce has wrought. For paradoxically, Episcopalians, despite their strong stand in the past against divorce, almost certainly have the highest divorce rate of any U. S. sect. Among the Episcopalians whom the revised canon might make eligible for Communion: Elliott Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt...
...speech. He was not well liked in the Senate, had no great influence there. Yet he had a certain importance. His importance was due less to him than to his colleagues: of the 96, Claude Pepper was the only one whom Franklin Roosevelt considered anywhere near fit to expound the Administration's foreign and defense policies...
...ornament of human society." The appointment of Bertrand Russell does not contravene that clause, as Mr. Sullivan suggests. Dr. Russell has stated that while on a Harvard platform he will confine himself to his lecture subject--announced as logic and semantics--since "even if I were permitted to expound my moral views in the classroom, my own conscience would not allow me to do so . . . they have no connection with the subjects which it is my profession to teach." Hence his utterances as a Harvard lecturer, the only utterances with which the General Laws cited are concerned, will not violate...