Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unreaped." He had discovered after the call came that he wielded a greater influence over his flock than he had supposed; he could not sever his intimate ties without a loss, whereas he did not doubt that a pastorate of such importance as that of Fifth Ave. would surely obtain somewhere the minister it needed. Forthwith, the press both of Manhattan and of Baltimore published editorials lauding his decision...
...Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, for receiving his decision with a certain degree of amazement. Amazing as it is, however, and regrettable from New York's point of view, it must be regarded with deference. . . . Far from regarding the ministry as a career, with such canons of success, as obtain in other careers, he seems to regard it as a service, to be detached from his personal acclaim and to be followed where duty lies...
...Soviet Government, Bishop William T. Manning called loudly upon Christian Churches to support Platon, the anti-Bolshevik. A new claimant arose in one Adam Phillipovsky, a big, bearded man with a voice that could make the windows of a church or a police-court shiver. He entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Convinced that by this piece of deference to the curious laws of a quaint country, all that he wanted had automatically accrued to him, he enlisted a Bomb Squad from the Manhattan Police Department, stormed the Cathedral, ousted Platon much as that...
...defend the present status of football has been criticized, the statement of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Debating Union published in this morning's CRIMSON would seem to place their action in a new light. Had the choice of speakers been made in an effort to obtain notoriety, as at first appeared, it would have been absolutely indefensible; but indicating as it now seems to, a sincere desire to give adequate representation to the defence of the status quo in football, such action appears rather to have been dictated by a spirit of fairness...
...clock on Wednesday, the first speaker will mount the platform of the Union. At present it is planned to use the Faculty Room for the football forum, but the great interest that is being shown by the University, may force the committee in charge to obtain the use of the Living Room...