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In the last few years the use of amorphous ribbons as core of magnetoelastic devices to measure deformation was spreadly studied in its fundamental concepts.

I first came upon this extension of ecumenism into pan-deism among some Roman Catholic scholars interested primarily in thereunion of the churches,Roman, Orthodox, Anglican. . . . . We may perhaps ask what is the ultimate aim of the Curia in promoting the pan-deist movement. Father Charles A. Bolton in Beyond the Ecumenical: Pan-deism? in Christianity Today, 1963, page 21.

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