Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...titular leader of U. S. Progressive Education settled himself in the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington last week and prepared to dispense the blessings of his faith to 81,000 young Amerindians. President Willard Walcott Beatty of the Progressive Education Association was fresh from the rich New York City suburb of Bronxville, where he superintended a model school system operating at an annual cost of $233 per student. His appointment as Director of Indian Education indicated a new attempt to develop some sort of education to which Indians will respond. When the U. S. Government first turned from shooting...
...makes no effort "ad captandum vulgus" by mentioning what is likely to win the vast majority of readers: Solovyev's criticism of "Hamlet", in which is demonstrated (as indispensable to the tragic venture of the play) the capital importance of Hamlet's belief in blood-vengeance, despite his Christian faith, and of his "general incapacity to put into execution any law." This is a most ingenious criticism of Shakespere, and it will serve to remind one that Russians have been unorthodox critics from the beginning -- a fact which is to be read between the lines of Dr. E. J. Simmons...
...whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience with all hearty and humble affection: beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless (he royal Prince Edward VIII with long, happy years to reign over...
...child, as I would I could suppose that you do. . . . But the point of interest in Damien, which has caused him to be so much talked about and made him at last the subject of your pen and mine, was that, in him, his bigotry, his intense and narrow faith, wrought potently for good, and strengthened him to be one of the world's heroes and exemplars...
...their pronouncements in print and from the pulpit, a majority of U. S. Protestant pastors broadly believe that a biblical heaven is possible on earth. But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking more angry, obfuscating backtalk, than did ever any argument about Science v. Faith...