Word: scopes
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Miller also faces a good deal of popular misconception about Williams, "the prophet of religious liberty," and strives to answer and correct it. He ardently denies that the scope of his thought was "social rather than theological," and asserts that Williams came to his final ideas solely because he was originally a Separatist. From that position, and through a peculiar method of Bible interpretation called typology, he came ultimately to the separation of church and state, and to freedom from enforced religion within the church...
...record of the Senate Appropriations Committee hearings on the armed forces appropriations bill, HR 5969. The Post reporter has got up to page 1441 in the record, where Trenor Gardner, special assistant to the Air Secretary for research and development expressed to Senator Ferguson dissatisfaction "with both the scope and amount of money being spent in this area." Whether he meant just at Harvard or in the whole research area, you can't make out. The Post, of course, had no doubt and pinned it on Harvard...
Lubell asserted that he used the Fifth Amendment because "the privilege in its broad scope, including answers which might tend to incriminate one of a federal prosecution of which might tend to form a link in a chain which would tend to incrimination, is available to the innocent as well as the guilty...
...found the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination available to me on the basis that the privilege--in its broad scope which includes answers which might tend to incriminate one of a federal prosecution or which might from a link in a chain which would tend to incrimination--is available to the innocent as well as the guilty. Under the existing state of the law, the privilege may be asserted in regard to a question the answer to which may be in the negative where it would constitute a waiver of the Fifth Amendment privilege in regard to other questions...
...stated his own position most clearly in his 1916-17 Report: "The teaching by the professor in his classroom on the subjects within the scope of his chair ought to be absolutely free. He must teach the truth as he has found it and sees it. This is the primary condition of academic freedom, and any violation of it endangers intellectual progress...