Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride...
...Eight denied the doctrine of original sin; 30 decided that there was "a tendency toward evil in human beings...
...judgement in the amount of food we take, we can achieve economics which will allow the University to purchase better food prepare it in better style: and possibly save some for those starving individuals in other parts of the world, who look upon our wastage as the true sin it really...
...that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts a bleak emphasis on the wages of sin...
...Infant Baptism: "There is no evidence of it iri early Christian times. Would an inquiry by experimental psychology show a higher standard of conduct on the part of those 'regenerated from original sin' than appears in others not subjected to baptism...