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Word: nonsectarianism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...when the Kentucky legislature passed a law forbidding Negroes and whites to attend the same schools, little nonsectarian Berea College had to dismiss its handful of Negro students. Last month, after 46 years, the legislature changed its mind. With the law amended, 95-year-old Berea (enrollment: 1,148), whose president is Francis S. Hutchins, younger brother of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins (see above), became the first Kentucky college to announce that it would welcome Negroes back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Come Back | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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