Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British and U. S. warships, says Jane's, are stodgy, orthodox. Pioneering in naval construction has passed to the smaller naval powers: Japan, France, Germany. The latter's "pocket battleship," Ersatz Preussen," is quite the most remarkable warship produced since...
Also convicted were three poultry organizations with typically grandiose racketeering names: 1) The Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce, 2) Local No. 167 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, 3) The Official Orthodox Poultry Slaughterers of America...
Other Men's Wives. Elaborate and stupid tale of a French wayside inn with Claiborne Foster, orthodox detectives, lingerie, disguises...
...Dean Robbins. Though he was both too broad and too independent for the liking of his erstwhile superior, high-church Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, he went last spring from his resigned deanship to teach in Manhattan's orthodox General Theological Seminary, principal training school of the Episcopal Church (TIME...
...mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency of the universe...