Word: insofar
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Easter. The Roman Catholic, Greek, English and .some other churches have joined in the movement to reform the calendar insofar as fixing a specific date for Easter is concerned. (Easter is now fixed in relation to the phases of the moon. This arrangement was made at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D. in order to give persons making Easter pilgrimages a waxing moon on their journey and a waning moon on their trip back home).-M. B. Cotsworth, Director of the International Fixed Calendar League...
...Child labor is too important an evil to allow it to be held off by the formal argument of State's Rights. The Amendment curtails State's Rights only insofar as it would set a minimum standard...
...observance of the amenities. A Government may be stern and firm but it is always polite. Hence "sternly repressed" had an ugly ring. The justice of Russia's case, if true, is evident; but, as no previous protest had been made, the note seemed unnecessarily blunt. But, insofar as could be judged, Washington took the view that His Britannic Majesty's Government took with reference to the Zinoviev letter (TIME, Dec. 1.)-that the Government of the U. S. cannot consent to "receive" the note addrsseed to it by the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs of the Union...
...people have a moral right to the free exercise of their religion, both in their Churches and in their schools." Last week, mayors of the Canton of Sarreguemines (Lorraine, near the Saar Valley) telegraphed Premier Edouard Herriot, protested against proposed changes in the laws of the provinces insofar as they affect Religion and religious teaching. They also re- quested the Premier to maintain the French Embassy at the Vatican. Premier Herriot replied courteously, thanked the mayors for their frank telegram, told them that their chief objection was founded on a misunderstanding of the Government's intentions which, said...
...today with what they were 15 years ago when he made his first study of medical schools. During the past two years Mr. Flexner has been conducting a survey of medical education throughout the world. German and Austrian universities, he found "suffering economically." "France has been quite stationary," except insofar as the acquisition of the University of Strasbourg gives the country, for the first time, a modern medical school plant. In Great Britain appear signs of a new vitality in medical teaching; full time teachers have been established in London and Edinburgh schools; research is being conducted in a well...