Word: heterodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie installed its eighth rector, Rev. Charles Albert William Brocklebank, 33, lately of Christ Church in Easton, Md., called to succeed Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie (TIME, Dec. 13). For Episcopalians who wondered if Mr. Brocklebank would dabble in heterodox ritual, as did voluble, mystical Dr. Guthrie, the new rector's pre-installation statements were tactfully soothing. Said he: "The contributions of Dr. Guthrie were so unique and so utterly dependent upon his own magnificent personality and breadth of knowledge that it would be folly for anybody...
Commonwealth College, founded in 1923 as a heterodox academy where left-wingers of all shades might work and study, was oddly built, and oddly remains, on a 320-acre tract near Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make...
...refuge from reality she took to books. Her heterodox hair and her heterogeneous reading made her "a rather embittered little philosopher" at 16. But Romance soon reared its tousled head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven...
...MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from the evolutionary picture after 1900, when Johann Gregor Mendel's work on the heredity of garden peas was rediscovered and the theatre of heredity was found...
...disturbances of electromagnetic radiation, as observed by Italy's Piatti. No successful forecast has resulted from any of these observations. The other approach is to take cognizance of possible contributing causes of quakes, such as the tidal pulls on Earth of heavenly bodies. Herbert Janvrin Browne, a heterodox Washington long-range weather forecaster, thinks the high frequency of quakes this year may be related to the fact that 1935 will have seven lunar and solar eclipses, the maximum possible number...