Word: unbroken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These Carnal Things." Bishop Manning's letter, printed in Manhattan newspapers, elicited a reply from Dr. Coffin, who declared: "The ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
...Presbyterian Church, like the Episcopalian and the Roman Catholic, claims unbroken succession of consecrated ministers going back to apostolic times...
...Aeneid and six orations of Cicero. In history, English, geography and mathematics the tests were equally severe. "Acute paralysis" would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability to the mode. And education, like fashion, has modes. The Harvard freshman of 1879 would have shuddered at the idea of a School of Business, but he was able to endure the thought...
...next step was the logical one. It was consummated last February, but the general public knew about it only last week, when Weber & Heilbroner exultantly announced that it now owned its own source of supply, that clothing would hereafter proceed from cutting room to fitting room "in one unbroken flow...
...body of the same much-appreciated lion tamer with similar results. Their affection is as remarkable as their marksmanship, 14 shots without a miss, and both protest against the interference of the police in their purely domestic affairs and ask to be reunited in order to continue their almost unbroken record of mutual esteem and forbearance...