Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, you will be wanting to interview me after dinner. After dinner is the orthodox time throughout the world for speeches. I do not know why. It prevents many people who fear they may have to speak from enjoying their food...
...converged upon a small, ill-favored church in the centre of the block flanked by apartment buildings- St. Nicholas Cathedral (mother church of all Russian Orthodox faithful in North America) which faintly reflects the Slavic splendor by its six cupolas above, and by ugly ikons and a seatless rotunda within...
Each had stroked his ball 291 times in the four orthodox rounds of the national open championship played at Worcester, Mass.; had been congratulated on a gallant tie for first place by the men they had beaten-sleek Walter Hagen, grinning Gene Sarazen, slangy Leo Diegel, trim Johnny Farrell, husky Willie Mehlhorn, tired, chagrined, heartsick Cyril Walker, the deposed champion, to whom the title had brought little joy in the year he had held it. Now they were playing an extra 18 holes to decide it-Thin Legs Willie Macfarlane, Oak Ridge professional (Tuckahoe, N. Y.), and Fat Legs Robert...
Undoubtedly there is much in this Report that is startling and possibly painful to orthodox believers in traditional cosmology; and yet it cannot be too often emphasized that the readjustment of some of the incidental tenets of our religion to meet the progress of modern science need not, and does not impair the fundamental structure of our faith. The only iconoclastic result of this expedition will be to destroy permanently the influence of those pompous and inaccurate historiasters of the last century who have falsified the sequence and meaning of past events by their lack of scientific method, their reliance...
...wretched little town of Nisi Yugo-Slavia, will shortly be celebrated the 1,600th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (TIME, Sept. 8) Although this town is in the domain of the Greek Catholic Church, the Roman pontiff and, indeed, all "Orthodox" Christian Churches show profound interest in this occasion. For it was the Council of Nicaea in 325 which scotched "the most dreadful heresy which has ever threatened the Christian Church." This was the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely the most perfect of God's creatures. In committing to Cardinal Tacci Porcelli...