Word: knell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Christians have had to believe in these tenets without any empirical proof of their truth, Wild said that "scientific and historical approaches to the Scriptures have not sounded the death-knell of faith." Wild went through the Apostles' Creed and discussed each article, bringing in the beliefs of other religions when they were relevant...
...curfew tolled the knell of parting night...
This, then, is not the death knell of the Ivy League proposition. Rather we wish to regard it as the culmination of the first advance. A temporary halt, perhaps, will pass before the next march begins, but the movement has been started. We leave it to others to carry on. --The Daily Princetonian
Harvard's victory should have done anything but bring defeatism to the Cavalier team. That very victory should have appeared as the complete vindication of a policy of amateurism rather than its death-knell. More than any other college has Harvard been tempted to take the easiest way out during its past years of defeat. Any success it has now must go down in the ledger to the credit of the belief that football can survive as a sport for the sake of sport...
...machine seems to be basically practical," said he, "but it needs improvements. To be successful, I believe it would require close co-operation among the machine's sponsors, the cotton growers and ginners. IF it is successful, it will be the death knell for family-size farms and for tenants...