Word: rend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton Theological Seminary has long been the despair of the liberal theologians and all the sons of restatement and reinterpretation, which, being interpreted, means evacuating the New Testament doctrines of their Christian meaning. They would rend the heavens with a shout if they thought that Princeton Theological Seminary shook in a single stone of its ancient foundations. This noble nursery of faith and piety and the other evangelical seminaries of the Presbyterian Church are the hope of the Church for tomorrow. If these fountains be poisoned, then woe to the Church...
...birds and the beasts!" cried his shocked friends. "Not at all," was the answer, "but-lay a stick beside me so that I can drive them off". "How can you, since you will not feel them?" "Well, if I do not feel them, what will I care if they rend...
...publications fought, and in fighting got the reputation of being radical, have nearly all been accomplished- and, being in successful operation, are no longer regarded with apprehension. "It is ancient history now to refer to the election of Senators by the people. That policy did not rend the structure of government to its foundations, as timid conservatism predicted; nor did woman's suffrage destroy the fabric of society; nor have direct primaries upset the balance of our political processes. "As a matter of plain fact, I am in some things an utter conservative, determined to conserve...
...claiming possession of the lady whom James Russell Lowell-according to the infamous and unauthorized interview of Julian Hawthorne-designated as "a snuffy old woman" the text of the old time headline writer, "What Next?" And for ourselves, a we read their feverish orations on this subject, destined to rend the air, we shall ask regarding their sources of dismay the same not impertinent question.-Boston Herald
...made no answering sign. She was abandoned of all the world. She must rescue herself. Cautiously and with infinite trembling she descended the iron stairs; stealthily she opened the little tower door. She tiptoed past the ogre. He turned and looked upon her. In an instant he might rend her. The poor princess stood transfixed with terror. "And what is your name, old lady?" he asked...