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Word: theocratic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After their ritualistic chores were done for last Sunday, Manhattan's Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning and Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick proceeded that evening to the former's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There theocrat and minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and take their rustling seats. Many a nurse wore the Red Cross uniform of crisp white dress and redlined blue cape. It indicated both that she had been graduated from a high school and that she had taken special courses in war nursing. Most of those at the Cathedral had served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Birth Control | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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