Word: worldely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archbishop could not help but think and hope thai Upsala, his home and the seat of Sweden's archbishopric, might some day be chosen as capital of Lutheranism. There, where once stood a glittering heathen temple, now stands as fine a Lutheran Cathedral as there is in the world, just west of where students in white velvet caps bordered in black stroll through the halls of the Oxford, the Heidelberg, the Sorbonne of Scandinavia, Upsala University...
Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
...Italy, a daughter was born to a man who later became Governor of Rome. At 16 she was described as "a beautiful young girl, high spirited, with the daring recklessness of a lad." She was called the Countess Annette Bentivoglio. At 26 she put away the world, entered the Poor Clare Convent in San Lorenzo. Thereafter she was known as "Mother Mary Magdalene." In time she journeyed to the U. S., founded a convent in Omaha, and one in Evansville...
...question was and is: who can be, who should be, acknowledged World's Champion to fill the niche whence James Joseph Tunney stepped into the Social Register? The hope was that Herr Schmeling, who is quite as genteel as Mr. Tunney but whose fighting face and style sharply recall tigerish onetime Champion Jack Dempsey, would prove himself eligible...
...subdue a brute. Eyes closed and bleeding, nose clogged, breath stertorous, Uzcudun, who had never been knocked out, was saved only by the bell in the 14th round. Schmeling says he might have finished him off in the next and final round, might have looked much more like a World's Champion, if he had not injured his right hand on the Basque's cromagnon cranium early in the fight...