Word: leavenings
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...enough either/or Christianity can be found in the next two decades. The more moderate forms [of Christianity] will have their function, but they will not be determinative ... It must also be taken for granted that the state will not become Christian. Spiritually speaking, therefore, it is the leaven principle which will determine the influence of the Christian attitude in politics...
...anyone takes satisfaction in church statistics, they are certainly entitled to it. When we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that basically our philosophy is pagan. We have just enough of the Christian leaven to make us respectable...
...leaven of Mr. Eliot ... is having a decidedly lightening effect on the sometimes doughy respectability of the Church of England, and I am convinced that this stimulus will have a great part to play in the coming struggle between religion and materialism in its many forms and the ultimate triumph of the Church...
...throat, and each manages to hold a kiss until the director calls for a blackout. John Hoyt, the master crook who happens to be carried into the hospital just as the hero begins his job there, acts both sick and wicked. Signe Hasso, his ex-wife, leaven no doubt that she prefers his money to his life...
...Yeast. The year was full of yeasty ferment; it bubbled up with new industries, gave new leaven to old ones. The television industry, which had optimistically hoped to make 600,000 sets, proved a bad guesser; it turned out 800,000, by year's end it was working at a 2,000,000-a-year clip. In its revolutionary sweep, television scared the wits out of radio (radio set production dropped 24% under 1947) and Hollywood (which hastily decided to join rather than try to beat the enemy). It promised industry an entirely new technique in remote control...