Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Straton laid down when he began his broadcasts 30 years ago. "The people will not get any doubts or negations or question marks from the Calvary pulpit," Straton promised. "I shall try to continue to do my part, as the Bible expresses it, in tearing down the strongholds of Satan...
...Cotton Mather 1678, for example, waged an active campaign for the post through two decades. He stoutly maintained that Satan had Taken up lodgings in Harvard. College and would only be driven out with his election as president. The corporation group which made the selection evidently disagreed with. Mather, for it twice bypassed...
...magic signs that he spares Wilbur, who lives fattily ever after. Author White (who lives on his own Maine farm) also does a fine job on farmyard life as seen through the eyes of geese and sheep, and reaches his peak with a scurrilous rat named Templeton who, like Satan in Paradise Lost, pretty nearly steals the show...
...London publisher announced a new book for its next spring list: Satan in the Suburbs, five short stories by Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 80, the first Russell fiction published under his own name. (One of the stories, The Corsican Ordeal of Miss X, was published anonymously in Go magazine earlier this year...
Towards the end of the 17th century, signs of dissolution began to appear, despite the rigid laws. Drunkenness, idleness, and varous other forms of dissipation led Cotton Mather to declare that Satan had taken up quarters at Harvard College, and would be dislodged only with Cotton Mather's election to the presidency of the school...