Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both England and France are bending every effort to explore their African lands, develop better means of communication and begin the exploitation of the Dark Continent's natural resources on an expanded scale. The swift development of Africa's virgin resources promises the shortest cut to restoring natural wealth and prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication...
...Algiers on a steep mount overhanging the city was placed, centuries ago, an image of Isis done in the blackest of black basalt. Early in the Christian Era, the image was accepted by the African Christians as an image of the Blessed Virgin...
...worship not contained in or selected from the Book of Common Prayer nor authorized by this Church or by the Bishops of this Church or the Bishop of this diocese, which you described in your printed announcement as an office and eurythmic ritual in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Feast of the Annunciation and also as a festal service in which service or special order of worship, in disregard of my counsel and admonition, you used and permitted to be used eurythmic or other dancing in the said church...
...Fosdick believes that he is in a growing church. Since everything else is growing, evolving, why doesn't the church have a right to grow and evolve too? John Calvin regarded the theory of virgin birth as necessary part of his hypothesis, in order to get at the proper interpretation of truth, but it may not be necessary to the interpretation of truth today...
...Manhattan, Unitarian Potter defeated Baptist Straton in the debate on the Virgin Birth. He has now won two out of three debates and has two to go. Both debaters referred to the biology of parthenogenesis. But the Baptist's best argument seemed to be that Presidents Wilson and Harding believed with him, to which the Unitarian countered that Presidents Taft and Eliot believed with...