Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assembly of the International Council of Christian Churches in Amsterdam stopped off at Orly Airport in Paris to denounce the "day of mourning" called for Aug. 22 by a group of Protestant ministers (TIME, Aug. 16). Said the group: "The position taken is unbiblical, unpatriotic, and un-American ... To teach youth to be conscientious objectors, to defy lawful civil authority ... is to use the church as a fifth column...
...Testament writers knew very well that [Jesus] was a man, and spoke of Him unequivocally as such . . . Moreover, Christianity does not teach that Jesus was 'a God.' Indeed if we are using language, in a truly Christian way, there is no such entity as 'a God.' There is only one God, and in the Christian sense there could not conceivably be more . . . Peter Damiani, the medieval divine, commenting on the words uttered by the serpent in Eden ('Ye shall be as gods'), remarked that the Devil was the first grammarian when he taught...
Rollicking Round. In 1938 the Holidays-with-Pay Act assured Britain's working men & women at least a week's paid vacation a year. It remained for William Edmund ("Billy") Butlin, a bustling, 48-year-old onetime carnival barker, to teach them how to use the new leisure. "I just think about what I'd like for a holiday," says South Africa-born Billy, "and then I give it to 'em." For the aspidistras of the traditional boarding house Billy has substituted neon lights and glass brick; for shoddy, scabrous hotels, rows of neat, bright cottages...
...that there should be courses having nothing to do with art, because to develop a fine artist you have to teach the whole man." Whether or not they had received the best possible school training, it was a fair bet that some of the exhibiting students would be heard from, adding to the vari ety and perhaps heightening the quality...
...Converts. To Rector McCormick, the purpose of education is to teach students what life is all about-and at Catholic University, most answers have religious roots. Every Catholic undergraduate must take eight religion courses; even non-Catholics are required to take four. Says the registrar: "We have an awful lot of converts...