Word: impetus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showdown Sessions. Members of the International Chamber point with most pride to its General Resolution of 1923 and claim with some justice that it gave an impetus which eventually produced the Dawes Plan. Last week in a secret showdown the night before the Conference adjourned Mr. Strawn and others of the steering committee managed to agree on a General Resolution for 1931 which was quietly adopted next day, embracing three major resolutions...
...called Merry Mount. Mention is made of a witch-burning episode. The producers are able to make their characters do anything, I suppose, but, as far as I know, there have never been witch-burnings in this country. The idea of this form of execution probably received a great impetus from H. L. Mencken- he refers many times throughout his rather muscular prose to such affairs. As a matter of fact the form of execution was usually by hanging. If there is a case on record where a witch was actually executed by burning during the colonial period, I should...
...Division of History, Government, and Economics. To these it will add many new courses of its own. Yale, in its Institute of Human Relations, and the University of Chicago have already realized the need for official recognition of a field which has grown steadily since the first impetus given by the rapid rise of psychology. And Harvard now feels the time ripe to follow suit...
...have no brief against the minority who enjoy this form of exercise for itself. But inevitably as soon as a sport is accorded recognition, others not really eager, are carried along by the impetus. The News makes its third annual appeal that football will eventually be relegated solely to that season where by its very nature it properly belongs. Yale News
Christianity gave a new world-impetus to religious healing. Jesus cured. The Apostles cured. After the 3rd Century faith in miracles changed to confidence in sacred relics, a confidence which persists at Roman Catholic shrines, such as Lourdes and Canada's St. Anne de Beaupre. Then the Reformation revived faith healing. Luther performed some cures through faith. The Moravians and Waldenses anointed with oil. Baptists, Quakers and Methodists produced "strokers.'' The Temple at Zion. Ill. contains a stupendous number of crutches and other physical aids discarded by cured believers...