Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide. To guard and cherish it is our first interest, both spiritually and materially. The fulfillment of spiritual duty in our daily life is vital to our survival. Only by bringing it into perfect application can we hope to solve for ourselves the problems of this world, and not of this world alone...
...preaching of hell, said His Holiness, "is more than ever urgent today." The duty of the church, "before God and men, is to teach it ... as Christ revealed it . . . Desire for heaven is a more perfect motive than fear of eternal punishment, but from this it does not follow that it is the most effective motive to hold . . . [people] far from sin and convert them...
...year, for example, we studied all the students who has scored 300--a perfect grade--on their scholastic aptitude test. Half of them flunked...
Throughout the treaty, there is a determined effort to prove that the Pact is in perfect-accord with the United Nations Charter. Although the declaration that the nations of Europe and North America constitute one regional area is indeed a strained interpretation of the UN Charter, it is a necessary interpretation. The signers do not want to do away with the United Nations; they believe the UN is the source of eventual peace and prosperity, as stated in the preamble and article one of the Pact. But the UN is clearly unable to cope with the present crisis. Its Charter...
...published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana Trilling: "The most important new novelist in the English language to appear in years." All the critics did not go overboard in this headlong fashion, but many agreed that here...