Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their bodies, fervor in their souls, aphorisms in their minds, a band of high-pressure Protestant missionaries last week began a three-month tour of 25 religiously significant U. S. communities. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America advertised the undertaking as "the greatest united venture in religion on the part of Protestant churches of America in this generation." Starting with Albany, N. Y. last week, preaching teams of at least ten men and women will spend four days in the following communities: Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Louisville. St. Louis, Cleveland, Des Moines, Omaha, Billings...
...natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding slowly and grinding small, has few other attributes that a civilized religion would call divine. It is efficient in its way-at the price of extreme slowness and extreme cruelty. But it is blind and mechanical; and accordingly its products are just as likely to be esthetically, morally, or intellectually repulsive to us as they are to be attractive or worthy...
MOHAMMED-Essad Bey-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth...
Masaharn Anesaki, of the Imperial University of Tokyo, Religion...
...White armies were stated at Seville by Generalissimo Francisco Franco: "What are the main objects of our Revolution? These consist in the establishment of a military dictatorship to last as long as is necessary to restore order and national economy- respect of life and property-governmental authority and the religion that is traditional in Spain...