Word: centeredness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The faith held by the Bible-centered Witnesses is concrete and uncompromising. Jehovah's first Witness, they believe, was Abel. Noah, Abraham, Moses, et al. continued the line to the "Chief Witness" -Jesus Christ. According to Witness calculations, Christ did not establish His Kingdom until 1914. Since the Bible...
A young hack scripter (William Holden), broke, desperate, and pursued by his creditors, ducks his car up a Sunset Boulevard driveway and blunders into an eerie survival of an extinct world. In the moldering, overgrown grounds he finds a mausoleum-like Hollywood mansion, circa 1921, intact to the last monstrous...
Next step is to turn a dial slowly until the left-or-right needle comes to rest in the center of its scale. Then the pilot looks at the dial and reads off his directions from it. By keeping the needle centered, he can follow the "track," as pilots call...
Capitalism, substituting contracts for the natural ties that had linked people together in church-centered communities, rose triumphant on the wave of "freedom . . . from the apron strings of Mother Theology." Though it was destructive, says Demant, capitalism seemed to be successful for a century or so, because it was still...
Defeated Hopes. With the distance cut to two miles, the sprinting Eastern crews were conceded a better chance in the varsity race over the Westerners, who are trained for endurance. As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint...