Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give up that word civilized until we've earned the right to use it. ... Let's never again have the effrontery to call ourselves Christians, until we've grasped a few of the fundamentals...
Since the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was organized in 1842, three years after the Society itself was incorporated, both have worked closely together in spreading the Word to the so-called "heathen peoples." Last year the Bible House supplied American missionaries with Bibles in 117 new languages. Recipients of the organization's largesse listed in the annual Librarian's report include both the Chinese Mission of New England, as well as the Norfolk Prison Colony of the Commonwealth...
...ignoscenti, however, a word or two of explanation may still be necessary. Let it be said, then, that Samuel Goldwyn and Friends have taken a little but justly-famous Thurber short story from a "New Yorker" of a few years back about mild, henpecked Walter Mitty and his daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does...
What, then, did Moscow hope to gain? In a word-time. Time in which to wreck the Marshall Plan on the shoals of disorder in Europe, on the rocks of the great U.S. depression which Moscow believes imminent. Moscow is by no means ready for full-fledged international war, but neither does it want peace. In the phrase of a top British diplomat, it wants a "twilight zone" between peace and war. Quite satisfactory twilights have been produced in Greece and China. It is time, in Moscow's eyes, for twilight to roll westward, along the course...
...reported from Warsaw that the Mariavite Sect (a Polish offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church) "does not recognize the authority of the Pope and [its] clergy are not obliged to practice chastity." Last week the chaste Times coughed discreetly and admitted that "chastity" was not the right word: it should have been "celibacy...