Word: ripon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed Thomas Jefferson was born at Ripon, Yorkshire, England, in 1732. He grew up to be an actor and had a son, Joseph...
...Bishop of Ripon, however, preaching in Leeds the following Sunday, made a protest far broader than simple anti-Darwinism. Said he of Science in general: "With all this new mastery over nature, man has not seemed really to be advancing his own cause. . . . Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost...
...Bishop of Ripon was not lynched. But upon his sermon fell the press comments that a few had expected for Sir Arthur Keith's speech. Said the New York Times, for example: "The Bishop of Ripon can hardly have been serious." Sir Oliver Lodge said that the good Bishop reminded him of his grandmother, who viewed with alarm railroad trains going 40 m.p.h...
Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...
...Belmont, Consuelo's mother, that she, Mrs. Belmont, coerced her daughter. "I know some of the Vanderbilts personally. . . . There was no hint from any quarter that the bride was under compulsion." Later, amid applause of the Church of England Assembly, convened in London, the Bishop of Ripon bodingly warned: "Our church ought to be an obstacle to realization of the Papal dream. We have recently seen the degree of modern opportunism liable to be reached by a church which allows itself to become politically minded. . . . [The annulment] is an insult, whether calculated or not, to an old communion...