Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evenings at dinner the Stimsons usually have guests. The Presbyterian Secretary of War, quietly but firmly pious, says grace. As a man must, who rises at 6, he turns in by n 130. Before midnight Woodley drops into darkness...
Concludes Father Garesché: "Our time is not as favorable to the development of vocations as more simple and pious days. . . . The girl of today is as free and uncontrolled as her brother. Nowadays the sexes are almost equal in their opportunities for amusements, occupations and freedom of action in general. When women as a whole were kept in the home and subjected to strict discipline, either by fathers and mothers or by their husbands, there was not so much difference relatively between their life at home and the life of the cloister. Time has changed all that, and girls...
Inspired by the ancient tithe (gift of a tenth), the Lord's Acre Plan got its start outside the churches eleven years ago, when James G. K. McClure, pious president of the Farmers Federation of North Carolina and son of the late theologian James Gore King McClure, decided the federation should have a religion department-something unique for a run-of-the-mill agricultural cooperative. Its project No. 1 was the Lord's Acre Plan, and its head was and is Mr. McClure's brother-in-law, the Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Presbyterian missionary and prep-school...
...Pious indeed has been the voice of Adolf Hitler calling Christian Europe to support his latest conquest, his "holy war" against Russian Communism (TIME, July 7). By this week, however, Christians had made it crystal clear that they wanted no part of his crusade...
...faced; no one has denied that. What was denied, first by the Teachers' Union, then by the Student Union, and finally by the Student Council, was that a flat ten per cent budget cut should be slammed down the throat of every Department in the University, with only the pious admonition to "injure educational standards as little as possible." According to the report, the tutorial system is being rapidly de-emphasied by the effects of the cut, and a Harvard education may become a watery sort of thing, at least "for the duration." Quite reasonably, the Council reiterated proposals...