Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion is more in public focus at Boston. As was expected, the Roman Catholic Church is furnishing most of the opposition. The attitude of Catholics is wholly understandable. It follows logically and intelligently from the first premises of Catholic theology. The Church of Rome, consciously limiting itself to the sphere of faith and morals, takes no cognizance of the economic and social aspects of the question. It regards the problems of chastity and procreation as it did in the seventh century and as it probably will a thousand years hence. Ageless and universal, it cannot and will not change...
...discussion was that this phase of the college program demands constant adaptation to the great world of life outside the cameos, so that those activities duplicating communal institutions, such as, the press, art, and music, prevail over the non-vital projects found all too often in the academic sphere...
...these distinguished persons three are famed for anti-Red sympathies, namely M. Poincare, Mr. Churchill and Sir Henri who contributes generously to White Russian (anti-Bolshevik) groups in France and elsewhere. Colonel Lawrence is always mentioned when Great Britain is accused of machinations in any Easterly sphere. M. Briand directs the foreign policy of the European nation most openly hostile to Russia. M. Poincare, touchy about being accused (by Germans) of starting the War, flared up at this new insinuation. "I deny the charges categorically...
...efficiency expert to attempt for once to moderate the wheels of industry instead of everlastingly increasing their tempo and it must be a still more welcome change for the poor office workers to have a human interest shown in their affairs. Sympathetic listeners are all too few in any sphere of life...
Life on the Riviera is a curious blend of pastimes such as sunbathing and tennis which build up the human system, and occupations such as tippling and gambling which do not. By far the most spectacular figures which move in the latter sphere are the mysterious group of slick little sloe-eyed men known as the Greek Syndicate...