Word: milleniums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a month of pressure-group tactics by Ashley Weare '50 to bring the millenium. And Juan U. Maegli '50, former chairman of the House Committee, had to consult dining hall officials, who consulted other officials...
...long, a woman asked, might the visitation last? Charles Williams answers, through one of his characters: "Why, perhaps a thousand years, those of the millenium before the Judgment. On the other hand, since that kind of thousand years is asserted to be a day, perhaps till tomorrow morning...
...record, for all its blunders, he said, was that of a country that sincerely desired peace and "one world." The U.S. has always been ready for the millenium, he continued, but has unfortunately been balked at almost every turn by Russia. About our activities in Greece, Elliott declared that we would be "untrue to our tradition" if we held back. He spared no pains to remind his audience of Soviet machinations in Eastern Europe, which he felt were "violations as flagrant as any in history" of agreements between nations...
Whatever the reason for this heterogeneity, all creeds lament it. As a matter of act, they have been lamenting it off and on for more than half a millenium, but now, with the interest of the cloth in the course of world history intensified by the advent of the atom bomb, lamentation alone is no satisfaction. In all religions the two principal aims are the same. The discovery of truth is one, the improvement of the world the other; and though there will probably never be unity in the pursuit of the first, American churches are finding that there...
Partially in the spirit of good-will, and partly under the pressure of national publicity, twelve white men defied their narrow social heritage in returning a verdict of not guilty. This, though a great move in the reconstruction of the South by southerners, is not the millenium. To match this case are hundreds of instances which appear, if at all, in fine print on the bottom of the back pages of your daily newspaper...