Word: imbroglio
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Princeton Seminary. At Princeton Theological Seminary Dr. Gresham Machen and Dr. Charles R. Erdman had maintained a bitter imbroglio for years. Dr. Machen, a stricter Presbyterian theologian than Dr. Erdman, had been named to the Chair of Apologetics at the Seminary. Of Dr. Machen's intellectual qualifications there was never a quibble. But Dr. Erdman fought the appointment on personal grounds...
...news much as Peaches Browning and Gertrude Ederle are news. It is nothing new to say that most of the evils of college football can be laid to the newspapers which magnify the sport and deify the players beyond all reason. A Los Angeles newspaper proclaimed Harvard's recent imbroglio in three inch headlines across the front page of an edition on green paper. The whole space in four representative Boston papers devoted to the really great innovation in education of which the Overseers approved a week ago would probably not aggregate a column--certainly...
...four reasons for opposing Military training in the Colleges, presented by Fellx Cohen, on behalf of the intercollegiate Conference of the League for Industrial Democracy, and published on the 31st, ulto., to my mind is the Elysium of oddities, the limbo of absurdities and the imbroglio of indiorous anomalies...
Interference which in New York State is in the form of an optional hint all too easily turns to iron-clad regulation as in the Tennessee imbroglio And even the mild allowance of half an hour a week from school-time is scarcely compatible with a healthy public self-respect. State encouragement of theology is an introversion of initiative implying a lack of confidence in the national fiber--a doubt striking at the foundation of morality...
...thought of his Huguenot ancestors buried in Provence. Here he was, a Protestant, about to lend his office to the robing of a Catholic prelate. Yet his countrymen are mostly Catholics, although by no means altogether dutifully so, and it would be politic to ignore last spring's imbroglio with the Vatican (see TIME, Feb. 9 et seq.) which has gradually faded...