Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR ARTICLE ON OXFORD GROUP SOMEWHAT IRRELEVANT. WHEN ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SAYS OXFORD GROUP IS DOING WHAT CHURCH OF CHRIST EXISTS EVERYWHERE TO DO, WHEN PRIMATE DANISH STATE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF CHURCHMEN OF PRINCIPAL DENOMINATIONS ARE IN OXFORD GROUP, SUCH WORDS AS ''CULT" AND "NEW RELIGION" SEEM INVALID. TIME DOES NOT WANT TO HOLD UP IN THE U. S. THE SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OTHER NATIONS ARE FINDING THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT-A REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE ORDINARY...
...plain citizens that procession of battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers and destroyers might seem Might enough to protect even 40,000 miles of coastline. But it did not seem so to the U. S. Navy Department. Therefore in Washington last week the House Appropriations Committee reported the biggest Navy supply bill in peacetime history, including authorization to spend upward of $102,000,000 to build two new battleships in case any other signatory of the London Naval Treaty or the new 1936 treaty did so.* Same day in London the First Lord of the Admiralty informed Parliament that His Majesty...
Motor Habits-the way people use their bodies-seem to be closely linked with the biological makeup. They are fairly uniform over wide areas. The American Indian cuts by drawing the knife toward himself; the African native cuts away from himself, like a New England whittler. Postures and gesticulations are good indicators of motor habits. To sort out cultural from biological factors, therefore, Dr. Boas made motion pictures of conversational gestures of different nationalities, projected the frames slowly one after another, translated the movements. Typical findings...
...send Harvard delegates to the Heldelberg 550th anniversary in view of the recent revelations of Hitlerite propaganda in connection with the celebration, will be put before the House. This resolution will be carefully discussed, and anyone who wishes to exercise his lungs may speak. The Union, however, doesn't seem to realize that it is a little too late to withdraw Harvard's delegates from the Heldelberg gathering, and it presumes that President Conant and the Corporation accepted the invitation to participate in the celebration entirely unfamiliar with the existing situation in Germany. To withdraw from the 550th anniversary celebration...
...British policy is framed, England will have to bear in mind the fact that Italy is slowly manoeuvering herself into a position of dominance in the Mediterranean, and that the Suez and Malta are dangerously near the Fascist axe. The days of the old-fashioned European Alliances and Alignments seem to be back to stay...