Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, concludes Professor McMahon, Oxford grew and flourished, even at a time "when feudal wars had drained a great part of England's wealth...
...public. Like this: a member surgeon charges a man having a $5,000-a-year income $500 for an essential operation on the man's wife. Ten percent is not at all unusual in such circumstances . . . This plan would provide the A.M.A. with ample funds to fight its feudal battle...
...Once? Protestantism needs its own external signs and symbols, but what, he asks, shall they be? "What is the symbol of Jesus Christ in a non-feudal world? Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises focus around Christ as a feudal Lord or earthly King and military Leader, requiring a soldierly bodyguard who in blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ...