Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations organization . . . has so far been rent and distracted by the antagonism of Soviet Russia and by the fundamental schism which has opened between communism and the rest of mankind. But we must not despair. We must persevere, and if the gulf continues to widen, we must make sure that the cause of freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science. Here lies the best hope of averting a third world struggle...
Spectacle of Schism? Just before the vote was taken, Dr. Fifield proclaimed dramatically: "If the merger is pushed through, the world will see the spectacle of a schism . . . You can break our hearts and send us home." But when the ballots were counted, it was 757 for to 172 against. Dr. Fifield summoned his followers to a protest meeting at the Hotel Statler. His dire prediction: 500 to 1,000 churches will withdraw to form a separate group, and litigation will begin over use of the Congregational name...
...event that might linger longest in the minds of the delegates, spectators, and television watchers of the Democratic Convention was neither Harry Truman's fighting speech nor the Southern schism. It was the pigeons...
...Newman's attitude toward Rome gradually changed. In studying early Christian history, he began to suspect that his beloved Church of England was in schism. For six agonizing years Newman tortured himself with questioning and doubt. Many of his friends deserted him. .In 1842 he left Oxford to retire to a life of monastic asceticism with a few young followers...
With the development of pure science came the foundation of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and this was the handwriting on the wall for the Lawrence Scientific School, for it was absurd for the University to have a schism in its science training...