Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-robed figure scrambled selfconsciously to the courthouse lawn with a pesthole digger. Four more, grunting quite humanly, lugged up a big kerosene-drenched cross. One touched a match to it. As the flames shot up, a green-robed man-Atlanta Physician Samuel Green, Georgia's Grand Dragon-stepped into the light...
...Last week Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green carefully explained that Ku Klux Klansmen wear masks to protect themselves against the prejudice of Jews, Catholics and foreigners. *Southern man has seldom condemned sexual relations between whites and Negro women; before the Civil War, when mulatto slaves brought high prices, the practice was encouraged. Today, approximately 70% of American Negroes have some white blood...
...President Frank Stanton, who had huffily cut down on television expansion when FCC refused to go along with CBS's color system, was busily making up for lost time. He was hustling to finish two studios in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal building, at an estimated cost of $700,000. He said the studios would be the "nation's largest television studio plant." CBS, which has a network of four stations, also bought 33% interest in Madison Square Garden Corp. to strengthen its franchise on big sports events...
...horgreeve. Yet, the voter is still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
Original Sin. This grand but somewhat anxious survey of man's fate Dr. Niebuhr clinches with a doctrine of original sin in which he leans heavily upon an insight of Kierkegaard's: "Sin presupposes sin." That is, sin need not inevitably arise from man's anxiety if sin were not already in the world. Niebuhr finds the agent of this prehistoric sin in the Devil, a fallen angel who "fell because [like man] he sought to lift himself above his measure, and who in turn insinuates temptation into human life." Thus, "the sin of each individual...