Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mightiest mind, the weightiest arguments, or the most clever arrangement of facts to refute the teachings of Jesus Christ? Does it mean to infer that in the college the student learns these secret disproo's? That here his "ignorance" --the "ignorance" to which he must submit in order "to revert to religion . . . against his reason"--is shattered? That here he learns to despise Christianity because he has either discovered or been taught facts or "arguments . . . (which) . . . refute (the) words" of Christ...
Does the CRIMSON really mean to assert and hold that for this product of the college, this "man" of superior intelligence and "occult" knowledge, that for this man "to revert to religion goes wholly against his reason"? That he has had implanted in his reason" facts and arguments which refute Christ's teachings...
...comment of Manhattan papers seemed almost to revert to the great screeding days of the giant editors who are no more...
...same day news was flashed from Washington that upon his return Admiral Coontz will surrender command of the Fleet to Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, and will be assigned as Commandant of the Fifth District Headquarters at Hampton Roads. He will then revert automatically to the rank of Rear Admiral...
...that, if the wells are to belong to Iraq, Britain could not well withdraw as mandatory power for at least 20 or 25 years. If Britain should withdraw before that time (as she engaged to do in 1929 in a recently concluded treaty with Iraq), the oil area should revert to Turkey whose stability is greater than that of Iraq...