Word: weightier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalists (TIME, June 4, 18 ). Since the loyal armies of Nationalism number not less than 400,000 men, the mutineers at Chefoo appeared to have indulged in a bit of sheer midsummer madness. They were not molested last week, however, since Nationalist statesmen were wholly preoccupied with far weightier matters (see above...
...anybody got a new idea in doctrine or ecclesiastical polity, he went out, if he had power enough, and founded a new denomination to represent it. ... A hundred and more denominations in this country, competing, overlapping, each insisting on some minutiae, tithing mite, anise or cumin and neglecting the weightier matters of the law. And so far has this historic policy gone that one denomination of Mennonites is distinguished from all others by the fact that it thinks wearing buttons wrong and wears hooks and eyes instead. "Against this policy of Protestantism we have taken our stand. We have built...
...hesitated to publicly accuse guests of the University of unblemished reputation of being grossly negligent and unfair, and sets up his puerile dissatisfaction as the measure by which to judge a decision rendered by men whose business it is to make continually unbiased decisions in far weightier matters than were here involved. Unfortunately Mr. Palmer's letter has not been confined to University circles where perhaps it would be laughed at and understood. It has been copied in the public press, in one instance under the caption "Unfair to Washington." Governor McCall, Judge De Courey and Dean Albers have...