Word: recanting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life...
Contrary to the usual custom there will be no judges for the contest. A vote of the audience will determine which side of the question has been best presented and argued by the debaters. This is known as the English system of judging and although employed in the recant Harvard-Cambridge debate, this will be the first time Harvard has used it in competing with an American university Ballots will be passed out to the members of the audience, and they will be asked to signify their choice as to the winner...
...section of the Boer population to a closer loyalty to the Crown and to kill the republican spirit voiced during the past election campaign (TIME, June 16) by Premier Hertzog and his followers. There is a good chance, however, that a term of office has already made the Premier recant, for it was he who re-issued the invitation to the Prince which General Smuts made some years...
...Tarbell, erstwhile Carrie Nation of petroleum, announced that she would vote for Coolidge. Almost immediately twelve ladies (Harriet Stanton Blatch, Rita Lydig, etc.) asked her by letter to recant and vote for LaFollette...
...position of the Marx Government was that it had already alienated the Nationalists by refusing them a place in the Cabinet. The Socialists openly refused to back Marx, but there was some hope that they would recant and maintain a dutiful neutrality. This means that the Government can count upon 193 votes to 87 from the Opposition, but if the Socialists should decide to oppose Chancellor Marx, the Government will immediately find itself in a minority; in any case it will be at the tender mercies of the Socialists...