Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These poor creatures can have none. Until death in reality parts them, they are joined in a worse union than matrimony could ever effect. They are linked like human sausages and await the consumption of multiple morons who pay to see demonstrations of that omnipotent nonchalance which some people worship. There was born this week of a mother in South Bend, home of clocks, twins...
...corporation of Yale University, finally persuaded by periodic outbursts of undergraduate liberal zeal (TIME, Oct. 19, 1925), erased from the college rule book the compulsion to attend divine services daily. Beginning next autumn young Elis will worship when they see fit. The local Y. M. C. A. representatives professed themselves well pleased. "Now," said they, "Yale can build up a true university church, supported by sincere religious sentiment." The Yale News (undergraduate daily) was even better pleased, having laid down the first militant anti-chapel barrage in 1921 under fearless Editor Edwin Victor Hale Jr., and completed the campaign this...
...other words, this building may be a tomb. Or it may have been associated with worship of Kukulcan. God of the Air. There is one more possibility which suggests itself with much force that this peculiar edifice, like the only other round building now known to be standing in the entire Maya area the so-called Caracol at Chichen Itza was an astronomical observatory. Most of the 30 per cent of the Maya hieroglyphs that have been translated relate to the calendar and astronomy of the ancients or to methods of counting. We realize how advanced was the science...
...help the car to climb hills! Or it reminds one of the situation of the dean of a cathedral who receives plenty of money for memorial chapels and stained-glass windows, but is hard put to it to build the nave to shelter the crowds which will come to worship. Not infrequently the most generous gift merely complicates the problem of how to keep the institution running...
...differ in their creeds, their aspirations and the cut of their coats; it is hard to find two people who accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior?the unwritten doctrine of good taste?that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended equally believers and skeptics, as hundreds of editorials in last week...