Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latter proposal, of course, is finding increasing favor across the nation, and a frightened cluster of special interest groups is buying thousands of column inches in magazines and newspapers in order to fight it. Under the headline, "Government Always Shrinks a Dollar," Republic Steel periodically tells readers that "whenever the government finances something for you, you pay for it--through taxes--with your own dollar that has inevitably been shrunk...
...Buttrick attributed woman's special interest in religion to her centrality to the home and its security, not to greater emotionalism. Similarly, the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church noted that a woman has a deepened perception of religious things "out of her care for children and closer and more personal association with the family...
Indeed, it is the opinion of the clergymen who work in the University community that Harvard and Radcliffe students are generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...
Striking contrasts between Harvard and Radcliffe student opinions thus must be sought in the religious rather than the political questions. Radcliffe girls exhibit slightly greater interest in religion than their Harvard counterparts--a difference made manifest by a greater inclination to resolution to perpetuate their own religious traditions through marriage and family...
...Have you experienced any sudden resurgence of religious faith and interest? 46 in your adolescence; 66 in collge...