Word: sects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high imams of the fanatical Shiah sect of Iraq's Moslems went recently a request for a fatwa-an ecclesiastical ruling. Asked by the Society for the Defense of Palestine to determine whether Iraqis should engage in a jihad-holy war -for their Arab brothers in Palestine, the ecclesiastics of Iraq's holy cities pondered over their Koran, read the Moslem traditions, looked into precedents, ruled last week that according to the words of the Prophet a jihad was called...
...Angeles, a nervy adventurer is investigating the mysterious murder of his brother, a reporter. Clues lead dangerously to the Brotherhood of the Judgment, a fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and the adventurer. During the next 187 pages, at the MacMichael desert palace, the three young men are shot at, kidnapped, finally escape an awful doom, not very much to a reader's relief...
...Peace!" is also the greeting of little Father Divine's darky sect in Harlem...
...18th Century, became a loosely organized faith in 1825. U. S. Unitarians are proud that Ellsworth Huntington, in The Character of Races, proved that in proportion to their small numbers (at present, 61,000) Unitarians had produced more U. S. leaders than any other sect...
Math. A--Sect 1, Professor Beatley, Sect. 2, Professor Coolidge, and Sect. 3, Professor Jackson, in last meetings of class. Sect. 3, Professor Huntington, on Tuesday, June 7 in Pierce 304 at 2 o'clock. Sect. 4, Professor MacNeille, Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2 at 3 o'clock in Sever...