Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that there is an exception to that old axiom that reads: "There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us. . . ." It is an historic fact that criminals, idiots and the dregs of humanity have had dogs to worship them, yet your correspondent seems never to have attained that happiness...
Officially the Soviet State tolerates all religions, including the Mohammedan and Buddhist, and permits religious worship. Unofficially Soviet leaders from Stalin down support the Union of the Godless, encourage what they call its "educational activities" in Russia proper...
...uneven chapel floor shows the impress, say the monks, of St. Catherine who lay there emitting light 300 years after Emperor Maximinus had her head hacked off.* In this same vicinity where Dr. Abbot's men will measure the Sun, men long before Abram left Ur used to worship the Moon. Sinai was then the Land of Sin the moon...
...President is being distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...
...Pope Pius XI not to break openly with the Spanish Republic or pronounce such charges of "unheard of persecution" as His Holiness pronounced recently against the Mexican Republic (TIME, Oct. 10). "The Nuncio . . . feels," cabled Correspondent Frank L. Kluckhohn of the New York Times, "that permitting some kind of worship is better than the church being expelled entirely. ... 'A field abandoned is a field lost' is said to be his view. . . . He feels that a rupture between Spain and the Vatican would not help any but would be likely to evoke extremist anti-church manifestations...