Word: pious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bill to "safeguard the Christian ideals of American education" will be taken up by the Education Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature within two weks. Behind its pious title, it contains threats against the tax-exempt status and the charter of any educational institution which "knowingly employs in its faculty one who advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence." Representative Ralph Sullivan of Boston, author of the measure, claims that charters and tax exemptions are given to colleges by the state in return for such services as "improving standards of education" and "taching respect...
There have been four clinics so far--called Great or Boston Student Government Conferences--and it looks like the student government people are going to need a clinic on how to run a clinic. The NSA people, despite their pious protestations, are acting suspiciously as though they want to make the Greater Boston Group a subcommission of the NSA. This would eliminate those schools who do not want to become part of an NSA subcommission. At the same time, such a move would do little except gratify some NSA people who like to make noises like politicians...
...noon, two pious Jews chosen by the rabbinate blew the shofar (ram's horn). Weizmann repeated the presidential oath with arm outstretched toward the Assembly, which rose on signal and shouted...
Last week Molina's statue was the object of pious veneration in the fashionable La Ermita church in Cali. Before Easter it will be taken to 16th Century Popayan for the famed Holy Week procession...
...committee. Minnesota's New Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey canceled his engagement to speak. President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century-Fox withdrew his sponsorship. Like General Marshall before them, some of Dr. Shipler's guests were discovering to their surprise that The Churchman involved more complications than the pious good work that its name implies...