Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent, her first inamorata punches the young man-about-town, apologizes to the lady for his faint faith and prepares for a wedding...
Credulous persons who enjoy a faith in parental paradoxes were no doubt disconcerted last week when they discovered the result of researches into the heredity of students at Yale and Harvard. These results were announced by Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, research associate of the department of geography at Yale. They indicated that the most representative undergraduates, the most successful graduates from Yale and Harvard were the sons of missionaries; next came the sons of professors; third came the sons of ministers. Businessmen's sons were low on the list, farmers' sons at the bottom...
During the last year, more than 32% of U. S. Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches failed to secure a single convert "by profession of faith." These figures, amply documented, were presented to the Men's Church League last week in Manhattan. If they hold true for other denominations, 60,000 out of the total 200,000 U. S. Protestant churches failed to gain a single convert during 1927. Of the remainder, many gained only one or two. Much perturbed, the League asked itself: "What is the matter with the Churches...
...bishop gives them: 1. The ministry is mentally stimulating; the minister keeps up with secular knowledge as well as with religious events. 2. It is physically attractive; pastoral calling means much fresh air, walking and driving a car. 3. It is spiritually helpful to the minister; building up the faith of others, he also builds up his own and so has few spiritual worries. 4. It is a prayerful life and therefore 'his nerves are at rest.' 5. It is independent ; 'one can rise at any hour one pleases,' fix one's own office hours...
...degree to correlate the studies in different fields, to fit the art, the music and the literature of a period into a complementary whole, rather than one that might have to be patched together by scraps of old notes and elusive recollections. And Dean Hawkes says out his faith in such glimpsing of Parnassus in his phrase "A student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work...