Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visser 't Hooft recalled that Protestants had often voiced another complaint: the absence of any mention of Scripture. And he saw that he had a chance, by the right words, to stress the unifying elements of Christianity while diplomatically playing down differences. "So," he remembers, "I took the breakfast menu and wrote out a new formula." Last week in New Delhi the Council adopted Visser 't Hooft's breakfast-menu definition as the Council's new credo. It reads...
...week's end, the general trends were clear. The section on Unity seemed to agree that church union will eventually entail nothing less than the death and rebirth of many of the various churches' forms and practices. The section on Witness felt that evangelism should begin to stress dialogue techniques in spreading the Gospel (even "dialogue sermons'') rather than straight preaching. This report also pointed out that churches will have to count on laymen for a bigger share in expanding Christianity. The section on Service agreed on two important points...
Each candidate's entire College record is scrutinized, and eight to ten men are selected for final interviews (for a half-hour at a time with two or three committee members. The interviews stress personality, initiative, knowledge of American and international affairs, and ability to communicate this knowledge fluently and rationally. From this group of eight to ten, a Fiske Scholar and a deJersey Scholar is chosen...
...answer lies in the fact that only a very few of the many abstract curves available can be analyzed with sufficient mathematical ease to permit an architect to calculate stress factors at a given point. And no curve satisfying the mathematical requirements lends itself so simply to the straight line geometry of the carpenter who must build a mold out of flat pieces of wood to form curved concrete surfaces...
Still another powerful spur, so the Administration believes, would be a radical reduction in tariffs and import quotas around the free world (see THE NATION). Most U.S. businessmen agree-but stress that tariff reduction has to be a two-way street. In a speech to the Foreign Trade convention. Henry Clay Alexander, chairman of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., declared: "We must drop our historic stance of giving a little more than we get. Without moving away from trade liberalism, we should be trying to get back some of the edge we have given away over the years...