Word: therein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class consciousness on a man's search for happiness. That problem is also of deep concern to the public. That public is entitled to the benefit of the writer's insight. ... To suppress what may appear bad in a book is also to suppress what is good therein...
...that men do you say is done in sin and merits nothing but eternal death. But therein you blaspheme. Stripping us of all possible goodness, you do violence to the teaching of Christ, who ascribes the power of being perfect to us: 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.' In the works of the saintly, there is nothing of the corruption you feign...
...Jericho differed from standard Biblical texts. Ibn Saud had Joshua commanding: "Burn ye all that is in the city and slay with the edge of the sword both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep, and burn the city with fire and all that is therein...
During the last year of World War II the U.S. Navy indulged in a bit of pleasantry designed to deceive the Japanese: Admiral William F. Halsey commanded the Third Fleet, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance the Fifth. Actually, the fleets and the ships therein were the same; the designation simply changed when the commanders alternated. Last week, as the Navy prepared to move into Japanese waters, the ships finally were divided: for the first time there were actually a Halsey and a Spruance fleet...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...