Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first faint peep of morning, the spirit of John Harvard, soft returning, takes up again its customary watchfulness: in sculptured meditation, behind that pensive mask, there sits enthroned a pedestaled revolt...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick is again the center of public attention. Seen in historical perspective, the "Modernist" controversy is the logical issue of Luther's successful revolt against authority in the sixteenth century. Since every new step in matters of importance is almost certain to crystallize the liberal and conservative tempers of men into rival camps of champions and opponents of the innovation, a sharp division between "Modernist" and "Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce...
...genius," and Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey succeeded in conquering the country. But even this victory was only nominal; for the Turko-Egyptians were never able to assert complete mastery over the country which they contemptuously called Bilad-es-Sudan, "country of the blacks." In 1882 came the revolt of the Mahdi, "Guide of Islam," aimed specifically at the Egyptians whose corrupt practices were thoroughly despised. The regime of the Mahdi was later replaced by that of the Khalifa. Under the latter, the country sank from bad to worse?virtually to a sparsely populated and barren wilderness. Sixteen years after...
...Harvard Democratic Club has taken up the gauntlet cast in its face by the newly formed "La Follette for President" Club. Challenged by that organization to disclose its list of members so as to enable the reported revolt in its ranks to take place, it has done so and for five days the Democrats in their turn challenge the La Follette Club to avail themselves of the opportunity thus presented to draw the Democratic Club members to their own "Progressive" battle standard...
...President for the American republic is the same character of action that is today being considered and taken by the thoughtful men of America. The realization that it is impossible for, President Coolidge to secure a majority of the votes of the Electoral Coollege, owing to the revolt within the ranks of his own party in the West and North-west, renders it advisable, in order to avoid a debacle in National affairs which might prove disastrous to the industrial life of America, for thinking men to support the candidacy of Mr. John W. Davis, unquestionably the most attractive candidate...