Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening. Dr. Thinh took down a French medical book from a row in his small private office, opened it to a chapter on hangings. Then he took a piece of thin copper wire, twisted it into a neat noose. Next morning, Buddhist Thinh, in whose religion suicide is the supreme reproach against unjust criticism, was found dead...
...prize's final quarter went to Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, also of Rockefeller-at-Princeton. Stanley was the man who threw a bomb into science (and philosophy and religion) by finding a Thing which acted like an inanimate chemical and also like a living, growing organism. It was the virus which causes the "mosaic disease" in tobacco plants. It can spread from plant to plant, multiplying within the living cells, apparently living itself. Dr. Stanley tricked it into a test tube, where it quieted down, the "living" molecules stacking together into protein crystals. But within this seemingly dead chemical...
...ordinary parish priest. Thirty-five years old, tall, extremely handsome, he was the greatest athlete in the whole countryside, the leading figure in welfare and charity work, a convincing speaker with enlightened views. He was popular even with Communists, whom he invited to his house to discuss politics and religion...
...small boys yelling, hooting and carrying placards bearing the words: "Abbasso la messa-andiamo da Messa (Down with Mass-let's go to Messa)." Elderly ladies on the fringe of the gaping crowd shook their heads sadly, murmured to one another: "All mad; there's no religion any more...
...founders of the New Haven colony, like those of Massachusetts Bay, cherished the establishment of a college as an essential part of their ideal of a Christian state, of which education and religion should be the basis and the chief fruits...