Word: profession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Franz Werfel, now living in California, did much to satisfy the curiosity of his Catholic admirers. In a letter to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, he wrote: "I am ... a Jew by origin and have never been baptized. On the other hand, I wish to profess here before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight the evils of materialism...
...first time in history, Christian ministers participated last week in observing the solemn Jewish day of mourning, Tisha b'Av. Their action was expressive of the growing understanding among religious groups throughout the civilized world. Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara of Kansas City urged "all who profess the Christian faith [to] understand the declaration of Pope Pius XI that 'all Christians are spiritually Semites...
...door of an office. Would that same person who placed the ad in the Crimson place a sign in the office window saying "Gentiles Preferred"? Would it be any more discriminatory if he did? Are we not firm enough in our beliefs to practice the equality we profess and, to the limit of our ability, force others to practice...
...latest internee had studied at the University of Munich until 1936, and was known to profess Nazi sympathies in his early years in this country. It is not known, however, whether his opinions have changed since the advent...
Mathematicians have long been haunted by a paradox: although most U.S. citizens profess to dread the study of mathematics, they are suckers for mathematical puzzles, made a best-seller of Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. The mathematicians' conclusion: the trouble is not with mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...