Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...
...most colossal and ruinous social sin that afflicts mankind: it is utterly and irremediably unchristian; in its total method and effect it means everything that Jesus did not mean and it means nothing that He did mean; it is a more blatant denial of every Christian doctrine about God and man than all the theoretical atheists on earth ever could devise...
...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...
...rearing range of Western hills has been photographed for melodrama's sake. In the foreground is Jack Holt with Billie Dove, Noah Beery and several thousand wild horses. How Holt saved the horses' lives, abetted the extermination of Mr. Beery and won the lady consume eight reels. Sin and sunshine are contained about in the usual proportions for normal Western entertainment...
...ordained. He studied Hebrew in Rome, went to Innsbruck to learn polity from the Jesuits, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In Canada he carried on a Holy War against modernism, denounced jazz, dancing, said that cinemas offered "serious dangers, if not approximate occasions, of mortal sin," forbade the clandestine sale of liquors...