Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lavatories. It cost $1,700,000-more than two-thirds of it from the pocket of British Chain Store Tycoon Isaac Wolf son-and the dedication ceremony was appropriate for a building that aspires to be the new center of religious law for all the world's Orthodox Jews...
...pale gold building, crossed the pastel rose and green entrance hall and climbed the Galilee-marble staircase (or took the elevator) to the huge reception hall on the fifth floor. They mingled there with a crush of notables as international as Israel herself: robed prelates of the Greek Orthodox and Coptic Churches, Moslem and Druse dignitaries, and members of the diplomatic corps (who kept their hats on like their Israeli hosts). There were even some English ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf-son-bobbing like exotic flowers in the wilderness of beards and black hats, and they caused...
...centuries since that first Communion, Christians have worked out many ways of administering the sacramental cup. Roman Catholics reserve the wine for the priest. Baptists and many other Protestant groups deliver grape juice in tiny paper cups to church members in their pews. But the Anglicans, Episcopalians, Orthodox and most Lutherans use a common chalice, held by the server to the lips of each kneeling communicant...
Kansas' Episcopal Bishop Goodrich R. Fenner disdained to make any hygienic defense of the common chalice,* relied instead on church tradition. "I am not going to take any notice of the Board of Health," he announced, backed up by Kansas' Lutheran and Orthodox churches. "Our first loyalty is to the church." As for Director Wright, the bishop said: "Christianity can beat a sanitarian...
Nobody held these orthodox views more firmly than Dr. James Morrison Ritchie, director of the Public Health Laboratory in Birkenhead (pop. 143,000), a grimy seaport and shipbuilding center on England's west coast. But against his will and judgment, Dr. Ritchie got involved in experiments that ran counter to all accepted theory. In Britain's Lancet, he tentatively reports success in two highly unorthodox attacks on the common cold -with vaccines and antibiotics, working not against viruses but against the bacteria which are always present in the throat and nasal passages...