Word: conflicting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening worship service they heard Dr. Warner Cole of Detroit deliver the annual sermon on "Conquest Through Conflict," in which he named three "foes, strong, deeply entrenched, that array themselves against the church of the 20th Century." First, he cited "the enemy of humanistic materialism"; second, the "dread menace of Communism"; third, "the aggressive advance of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical empire," which is "seeking not only spiritual and religious domination but political power...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...
...based? Why cannot these laws be altered by the individual to suit himself, if they themselves are not grounded in a deeper reality? If charity has no reality except as a pragmatic mode of behavior, an individual could logically devise his own morality when his good appears to conflict with society's good. It then becomes a matter of who has the best opportunity and the most power...
...humble thanks go to divine Providence, which, after formidable events which shattered the earth during the second world conflict and in postwar years, has granted humanity some improvement in general conditions...
Queens College has its president. Whether or not Theobski's will experience ponewed conflict between "radical" student groups and public figures like James Roe and Connihasn Quinn is a question for the future...