Word: preach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis closed over 700 German monasteries and convents. Last month they expelled 60 Catholic priests from their parishes. The work of scores of other priests and pastors has been halted by confining them to their homes or forbidding them to preach...
Deterrents or no deterrents, New Deal economists now preach that the U. S. is on the road to recovery through rearmament. With this view Business emphatically disagreed. An ominous 67.4% felt that temporary prosperity stimulated by rearmament "will leave us with our economic problems worse than ever because we failed to set our house in order before the boom started." Thus the recent sluggishness of the stockmarket, despite soaring production indices, is evidently deeply rooted in Management's long-range mistrust of the defense hypodermic. This mistrust was confirmed by the Forum's feeling on whether...
Beecher, who wrote his future wife, after graduating from his father's theological seminary: "I cannot assent. What then? Preach I will, licensed or not. . . . Will you go with me into the wilderness?" Today the American wilderness sprouts populations instead of trees. But the protestant blood of the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, and others like them, flows on unchanged-a bright, early-American, rebel...
Sidestepping the issue of passive resistance as skillfully as a temple dancer, Saint Gandhi ordered his followers to obey laws and cooperate with the Government while he visited the British Viceroy to "seek permission to preach nonparticipation in war." Nonparticipation, he warned his followers, was no prelude to mass civil disobedience, but fearing that without some action to push Indian independence the masses would desert him, he compromised: "I don't want to order civil disobedience. I favor individual disobedience." The wily Saint knew that individual disobedience, lacking organization, would amount to nothing. The independence movement, he admitted, could...
...chiseled an education from colleges all over the world, including Oxford, and learned 83 different languages and dialects during my travels," the burley adventurer explained. "I hope to discuss law with Dean Landis and to preach a sermon in the Chapel before I leave...