Word: staines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth control: "The Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...
...decades ago only a few vallant and exceptional students "ever dared rise to such dizzy heights" as the study of differential and integral calculus, but that today the calculus is merely the starting point in college mathematics. The march of modern science has erased from the mathematical specialist the stain of being "queer...
...proclaimed the new dogma and instructed Catholics to believe ''that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first instant of her conception, was, by a most singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the human race, preserved from all stain of Original Sin. . . ." Catholics also believe that "she had at least the graces of the first Eve before the Fall and "more." The dogma invigorated the ancient veneration of Mary. The woman Mary became an idea, and as the idea of the Immaculate Conception was designated Catholic Patroness...
...washed his hands of Stone Mountain, went north. Three months ago one Will Tuggle, Atlanta Justice of the Peace, attracted attention to Stone Mountain by scaling the back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which might in time become a rift and finally a mountainside to carry the whole memorial down to the dust heap below (TIME, June...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...