Word: pious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweetest revenge upon the wicked Moslems." he said. "I will bring her up as a Moslem, and restore her to her relatives when she grows up. And she will be as pure as the white snows of the Himalayas. That will teach the Moslems that a Sikh is pious in peacetime, just as he is invincible...
Divinity School students refused yesterday to outlaw "pious" religious activities from Student Association Meetings...
...meeting at noon in Andover Hall was in response to a plea made two weeks ago in the inaugural address of Schulman, asking for students to attempt to be more pious by such measures as having "prayer before meetings...
...death, as the Magdalene saw it. The Christ of his book is a revolutionary who "gave scandal as though wantonly." Clearly subversive of both Hellenism and Judaism as they then existed, he was put to death not "by the ungodly, but by the 'just' and the 'pious...
...pious but practical young pastor. Otto Dibelius noticed these things. The professors at his seminary had taught him that a pastor should never enter the homes of his parishioners. "If you do," one instructor warned, "the mantle of Elijah will surely fall from your shoulders." In Scotland, as a student of the established church, Pastor Dibelius learned differently. Back in Germany, after months of observing the ways of his Calvinist brethren, he startled some of his colleagues by mixing freely with his parishioners and encouraging them to be active in the life of the church. Once, while...