Word: preached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roman Catholic Church is not letting any grass grow between the advancing German troops and the first wave of Catholic missionaries sent out to win the occupied districts of Russia for Catholicism. Since 1927 the Holy See has been training workers at the Russiacum College in Rome to "preach, strengthen and defend the Catholic faith among the Russian people." Last week the Vatican reported that the first batch of missionaries had already reached Hungary and Rumania en route to their new posts in the conquered areas of Russia. Other priests soon will follow...
Could you give me additional information about this paradox of a big contraceptive plant in a country whose leaders preach fertility...
This is the students' first real chance to demonstrate just how sincerely they intend to practice what they preach. The cause is worthy; the need is great. The occasion is at hand, and let Harvard rise...
Everyone of course knows the plot by now. The Ghetto barber, mistaken for dictator Hynkel, gets to make the big address at a party rally. Instead of preaching tyranny and inhumanity, however, Chaplin himself steps out of character to preach his own democratic philosophy. Early reviewers pretty much agreed that this spoiled the picture. The changing events in Europe will make this statement of faith in democracy more appealing than some of the ruthless storm troopers' actions which now aren't quite so funny. As a whole the picture is a spotty job. In some scenes, such as the bubble...
...Nietzsche's wicked writings "The Antichrist," "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Thus Spake Zarathustra"--to prove that the Kaiser and his clique (none of them had probably ever read or even heard of the books) were leagued with the devil. Today the German rulers not only read but preach from Nietzschean texts. By careful excision the official Nazi philosophers have adapted Nietzche's works to buttress and lend a respectable philosophical aura to their case. Friedrich Nietzsche who despised his contemporary Germans, who was bitterly anti-anti-semitic, who wrote of himself as "a good European" has become the high...