Word: resists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morals intact. After all, the moral effect of gambling is very little understood. It is not that the gambler, losing his own fortune, borrows from his friends; nor that having won a large sum he hates to tear himself away. The unfortunate fact is that few gamblers can resist the enticements of fetish and superstition. Faith in luck, in signs, in systems replaces reason and sense and nothing, certainly, could be more fatal...
...Holy Father expressed the wish that "the greatest advantage should be gained by those Catholics who by the publication of newspapers and other writings illustrate, promote and defend Christian doctrine." He counsels that "they should confute errors and resist the wiles of perverse people, but in a way showing they are inspired by rectitude and especially by charity." To the work of extending the usefulness of the Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop...
...Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much more to his taste than those of the willful child he has married that the course of true love would undoubtedly run smooth were it not that the elderly Empress cannot resist the temptation to captivate her young soldier. He, too, discovers imperial experience outweighs youthful naivete and the poor little Princess is left lamenting...
...Society of Friends of Medical Progress was organized last week by a number of prominent laymen to support scientific medicine and experimentation, and to resist propaganda or legislation dangerous to public health. Dr. Charles W. Eliot is Honorary President; Thomas Barbour, naturalist, is acting President; Ernest Harold Baynes, defender of vivisection and of humanity to animals, is Field Secretary. The Society is commended by the American Medical Association...
...utter destruction and contempt waiting for those fools who resist Providence...