Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations for the Motion Picture Industry Council. He asked Schary for help in lining up meetings with other industry leaders. Schary passed the request along to the council, which decided to take it "under consideration." Meanwhile, on his $9-a-day expense allowance, the investigator could go on contemplating sin without much risk of running into...
Among Britain's ten national dailies, circulation figures are frequently high where journalistic quality is low. Thus the sin-and-crime-loving London Daily Mirror tops 4,000,000 copies a day, while the respected Manchester Guardian sells a mere 160,000 and the famed London Times only 280,000. One happy exception to the rule is Viscount Camrose's London Daily Telegraph, whose circulation of 981,566 makes it the world's largest quality newspaper. Most of the Telegraph's readers on both sides of the Atlantic (it has 600 U.S. subscribers) consider...
...evident sinners. But the church decrees that each case be studied carefully for the slightest circumstance which can be interpreted in favor of the sinner. To condemn this merciful outlook is to misunderstand the entire gospel of Christ. With the hatred of the Lord Jesus Himself the church hates sin, but with His own compassion she stands, as long as there is the slightest foothold, between the sinner and the terrible consequences of his sin. If this means that she will be called the friend of sinners, she does not forget that the same charge was hurled at her Master...
From your editorial April 13th on the Debate Council, you stand convicted with the University of the same sin. You justify your plea for Debate Council support by stating that a winning debate team is a "worthwhile investment," whereas a losing team detracts from Harvard prestige. You also imply tacit acceptance of the theory that competing organizations in general should be able to pay their own way by gate receipts...
Martinis & Wisdom. In the end, Shireen collects the wages of sin. She loses her husband and her peace of mind, and is left with nothing but a shrinking money bag, a swank flat, and what passes for wisdom across dollar Martinis: "Man cannot live by caviar alone...