Word: accidental
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Rowing about 100 yards away, John P. Hamilton '63 saw Bachrach in the water but arrived too late to aid. Hamilton immediately dived several times in unsuccessful attempts at rescue. According to Hamilton, the accident occurred within 20 yards of the shore.
Since the death of Auto Racer Mike Hawthorn in an ordinary accident on an ordinary road last winter, Britain's fastest, most expert drivers have pretty much throttled down out on the highway, with one exception: Countess Attlee, 63, wife of and longtime driver for former Prime Minister Clement...
It is probably no accident that the apostasy rate is higher among Christians than Jews, and among Protestants than Catholics. (Anglicans, incidentally, defect at the rate of one out of every four.) For it was Christianity's natal entanglement with Greek philosophy that yielded the world its first major religion...
If neither the history of the race nor the biography of the individual is any longer thought to be an obedient unfolding of some fixed omnipotent Will, how can man be awakened to the enormous task that has therefore devolved upon him of infusing both these things with his own...
Like Iscariot, we are prostrated by a weight too oppressive for us to bear, and it is anything but an accident that, as Niebuhr and Tillich and Dawson have shown us, religious language provides the most adequate metaphors for conveying our thoughts and feelings on this subject. But it is...