Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ex-Senator Truman knew what he was talking about. In the inner circle that rules the Senate, Styles Bridges was the innermost man, the dean of Senate Republicans, and one of the savviest politicians in the upper chamber. He was a poor speaker, and his name was never attached to...
> The Roman Catholic Church, pointing toward Pope John's historic Ecumenical Council (probably in 1962) is showing a new friendliness toward Eastern Orthodoxy and toward its "separated brethren," the Protestants. For the first time, the Vatican has sent official observers to an Assembly of the World Council. Within the...
This merger finally unites the three elements with which the ecumenical movement began. At a historic meeting in 1910 of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh, elements of Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christianity began to meet and work in parallel. One stream, known as "Life and Work" and concerned with...
Although some of the converts are girls who want to marry Jewish men, many are drawn not by romance but by the patient proselytizing of such new missionary groups as Chicago's Jewish Information Society of America and the National Jewish Information Service, in Los Angeles. This soft-sell...
Back in 1802, when Napoleon still cherished dreams of conquering Britain, one of his engineers proposed the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel. The British never quite forgot Napoleon's designs, and for a century and a half afterward British governments vetoed the idea of a Channel...