Word: heterodox
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...renegade, a pariah. In 1909 they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since radio broadcasting has become an agency of heterodox persuasiveness, she has operated WHAP from Manhattan* to their vexation...
...Robert G. Ingersoll, you know, who made the heterodox statement that for the most part colleges are places where the pebbles are polished and the diamonds are dimmed. But so many of us are pebbles and so few diamonds that we may well take the chance. College education, certainly, increases our happiness...
From this moment, there began a bombardment on his character and his dangerous heterodox leanings, led by Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and others who did not stop at calling him the "Little Corporal." The gist of this attack was that Trotzky was trying to substitute Trotzkyism for Leninism. It was alleged, according to an official document, that his attacks "had been interpreted by the bourgeoisie and the Social Democrats [Menshevists] as a sign of a split within the Russian Communist Party, and consequently as the disruption of the dictatorship of the proletariat"; that he had "declared war against the very...
...bishops in Texas found an echo in the college world after the Indianapolis Conference last December, at which it was discovered again that Harvard is a perfectly godless place; and lot of people are now doing themselves good (probably) by praying for us. Altogether quite a conglomeration of heterodox religious ideas have been competing for believers...
...similar interclass series at Yale, a championship game between the winning teams of both colleges will be made possible. The advantage of interclass play over the Letter Cup team series which it supersedes in that organized interest, competition and class rivalry will take the place of the heterodox disorganized matches which resulted from the formation of teams that had no common bond, and the personnel of which was constantly changing even in mid-season. Added to this the coaching promised by more experienced players will lead to a better brand of individual and team play, while the proposed match with...