Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to go is largely conjectural. An interesting body of legend has accumulated of which the following is a partial analysis: Legend: Cord contributed $1,000,000 to Roosevelt's campaign. Probable fact: $23,000 is nearer right. Legend: Amon Carter of Texas was Cord's prime Washington go-between. Cord stood ready to back Mr. Carter in buying the Washington Post. Fact: Mr. Carter, who sold his Aviation Corp. stock [500 shares] after Cord got control, has never been obliged to Mr. Cord, but knows him well. Legend: Silliman Evans. 4th Assistant Postmaster General, is Cord...
With a total of .936 study cards for 1934-35 handed in from the Freshman class and 39 still outstanding, partial statistics from University Hall reveal that English will again be the most popular field of concentration, with 119 men enrolled. Economics, which last year was the third most popular field, has taken second place, with 107 men in the field, a gain of 15 over last year, while History has dropped to third place with 97, a decrease...
Since nature conforms to intricate mathematical equations, Sir James sees its Creator as a pure mathematician. Since mathematical equations are only collections of symbols, Sir Arthur denies the ability of science to provide any but a symbolic or partial knowledge of reality, argues for a sort of intimate knowledge by which human consciousness, a phenomenon outside science's domain, senses the unseen world of significances, values...
...pardon for future sin. According to Catholic doctrine, an indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of temporal punishment (in Purgatory) for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. It may be a plenary indulgence, granted only by the Pope, remitting all punishment; or a partial indulgence releasing the sinner from a certain number of days or years of it. This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public-penance which often lasted days and even years. Based upon Scripture, the theory of indulgence is that the "Treasury...
First Pope to offer plenary indulgence was Urban II, who thereby encouraged men to join the Crusades. In medieval times a partial indulgence of 20,000 years could be had for a few prayers. Plain people often mistook the meaning of the grant, thought they were getting relief from guilt and punishment by a mere outward act. From the fact that they were willing to pay for indulgences arose the scandalous abuses against which Martin Luther thundered. Today indulgences may be gained in innumerable ways: attending newly-dedicated churches (50 to 200 days), giving alms to charitable orders, visiting certain...