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Word: triennially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out last fortnight (quoting Banker George Foster Peabody) that its membership controls one-tenth of the wealth in the U. S. But Episcopal dignity, grounded in ease and security, can become ruffled with changing times and new problems. It was evident last week that the Episcopalians' 50th triennial General Convention, opening in Denver, Col., was to be considerably less placid than the 49th, which President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge opened in Washington (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians At Denver | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...American Birth Control League invited 30 Protestant Episcopal bishops to its convention in Manhattan last week. Not one bishop appeared, although their Triennial General Convention at Denver next September is certain to consider birth control in echo to the last Lambeth Conference of bishops of and affiliated with the Church of England, which discreetly approved the movement (TIME, July 14 & Aug. 25). Nonetheless there were several preachers of various denominations among the 200 delegates who attended the convention. Also-present were a few doctors. Conspicuously absent were women who revel in tales of their own childbearing, women too prudish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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