Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1415, Emperor Sigismund, the perfidious ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and the last of the Luxemburg dynasty, had burned at the stake one John Hus, protestant against the Catholic Church (he is alleged to have intimated that the Antichrist might be found at Rome), and a hero of Bohemia...
...spread out our banners, 'On Earth, Peace,' while the whole nation reads of our conflicts in the Church. We must be done with heresy hunting. It never brought peace anywhere. Burning at the stake, being cast into prison did not cure heresy in the older days and anathemas will not cure heresy today. Why should our denomination be made the laughing stock of the world? Let us surprise those who are looking for trouble by the way in which we will exemplify our motto...
...impending trial at Dayton, Tenn., of Teacher John T. Scopes for giving instruction in Evolution, contrary to a state law, continued to clutter the press with reiteration of the issues at stake, which adherents of both sides of the case stoutly believed would "educate" the public up to the grave importance of the trial and its everlasting effect upon U. S. pedagogy, science, morals, history, religion...
...cause a quarrel between Canada and Maine. Why Maine? "Because," said Governor Brewster in the farewell banquet given the explorers at Wiscasset, "this land will belong to Maine." And he presented MacMillan with the silken flag of the state to plant on this hypothetical land by way of a stake-claim notice...
...Walsh, there is one more immediate prize at stake. As Chairman of the last Democratic National Convention, he profoundly impressed his warring fellows by his calm, authoritative impartiality. He had already supplied his party with its issue? "corruption." There was always the bare possibility that the political lightning would mark him as its leader...