Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a Catholic, I must disagree with the statements of Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne concerning the "pagan" act of kissing, etc. Further, no one has the right to restrict my smoking or my drinking. This is an invasion of private rights, unwarranted by anything in the...
Egypt was dismayed by Russia's display of arrogant power. Nasser's dispatch of Egyptian troops to Syria suggested he did not like another bullyboy muscling in on his territory. Probability: Nasser would be increasingly cool to offers of further Russian aid.
Mohammed was a reformer as well as a moral philosopher. By the standards of his times, he was in fact an emancipator of women. He actually outlawed some of the excesses that existed before his time, e.g., unlimited polygamy, the infanticide of girl babies,* and there is evidence that he...
Morocco's Ministry of Justice is working on the draft of a new divorce law that will strip Moroccan men of the right to shed their spouses simply by repeating "I divorce thee" three times, and bring the law more nearly into accord with Western-type procedures. Polygamy, a...
At the Institute the only tools a scholar needs are his pencil and paper, a quiet place of study, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with men who are at a similar level of scholarship. The emphasis is different depending on the individual member. For some, the Institute affords a...