Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again will the latter gentleman kindly inform me who has been and who is advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...
...done about it." This statement of our Defender of the Faith is wrong or right according to the meaning of the term religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about glory, salvation and sin--then we may safely and thankfully say that Harvard is lacking religious ardor...
...wrath of France by a raid on French Morocco in which their forces nearly captured Fez. Instead of thereby intimidating France, and?as they appear to have hoped?persuading her to exert pressure upon Spain to grant the Riff autonomy, they instead roused the French to an active fear lest Krim become supreme throughout both French and Spanish Morocco...
From this fear sprang the concerted Franco-Spanish action of the past year, which resulted in the disruption of Krim's power last week...
...congregations, from lonely mountain missions and from comfortable smalltown pastorates, gathered in Washington last week for the Northern Baptist Convention. They gathered to state opinions that were burning within them and to ask questions that had been troubling their reins this long time. And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations...