Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Religious Broadcasting. Enterprising evangelists and regularly employed clergymen snapped at radio's religious opportunities quickly after Westinghouse began broadcasting ten years ago. Three years ago first N. B. C., then Columbia systematized radio religion and offered time to Protestants, Catholics and Jews. The three creeds took advantage of their opportunity as detailed below. Apart from such chain broadcasting are individual stations operated by churches, societies and evangelists. They number about two score...
Specific cause of last week's narrow squeak: Religion. The amendment carried provides in effect that the bill shall not come into operation until the Treasury grants certain subsidies to Roman Catholic schools...
...future the practice of polygamy in Palestine will be permitted only to persons whose religion sanctions...
This identity of religion and medicine goes back to man's earliest thought. The Babylonians had no doctors as such. Nor for a long time did the Egyptians. And it was a long time before some of the priests of Aesculapius set up a separate medical guild outside the temple walls on the Island of Cos, and a longer time before the guild admitted laymen. Hippocrates (400-359 B. C.) was the Father of Medicine. His medicine was pragmatic, had nothing to do with theology...
...into a whole village of them. His Sexton Truggins, Farmer Beerfields, Dame Tastes are symbolic figures, but they are more than merely parabolic types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy speech never was indulged in by men of straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint was sufficient. Parson Sparrow, whose predecessor...