Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
...efforts of Mr. King during the past five years to free Canada from every vestige of dependence upon Britain have been remarked with disfavor in Downing Street, and at Buckingham Palace. Per contra, Premier Meighen is a staunch Imperialist. Lord Byng, it is apparent, cut Canada's Gordian Knot on a distinctly Imperial bias...
...school to college has long been an outstanding problem of education. Many suggestions have been proffered and accepted by those at the helm to make the break less abrupt, the Yard walls less distressing. As time has gone on, however, educators have realized that the real solution to the Gordian knot lay in the students themselves...
Consider the pendulum! For some time that of the Student Council has hung motionless, but suddenly it has begun to swing, and on its first sweep severs two Gordian knots...
...lest some one suborne the bellringer and so cut the Gordian Knot, it must be protested that the quarter-of-ten project smacks of what are mathematically known as "Ingenious devices." Being temporarily thrown out of work--for fifteen minutes--the students would have to choose between going to Chapel and sitting on the steps of the New Lecture Hall. If the wind continued to blow at eighty miles an hour, this dilemma would undoubtedly stimulate many conversions: happily, spring is scheduled to begin on Friday. But the unfortunate part about this particular suggestion is that everybody would have...