Word: belief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undesirable.- (a) Original cost would be great.- (b) Cost of maintenance would be large.- (c) Existence of a large navy magnifies the chances of war.- (1) Country has to be more sensitive to so-called "insults against national honor": Nation LXII, 47.- (x) Efficiency of armaments depends on belief that war is imminent: Nation LIV, 44; LVI, 360. (2) Increase of foreign complications and growth of war spirit in the United States has been commensurate with recent growth of navy: Nation LVI. 44.- (x) Those in authority have unnecessarily seized opportunities of getting the nation into trouble.- (I) Barrundia affair...
...advanced from a bare proposition to the purchase of the ground, to the approval of a general plan for the arrangement of the buildings upon the new site and to the laying of the corner stone of the library, the first building to be erected. Circumstances have jutified the belief that the re-establishment of the college upon a scale commensurate with the extent and importance of its educational work would unfailingly command the confidence and support of the alumni and of the public...
...present there seems no basis for a belief that it would be advisable to change the present methods. Professor Shaler, however, will be glad to hear, either personally or by letter, any opinons or suggestions which men may have to offer...
...whole Christian world. The primitive Christians were closely united and St. Paul spoke repeatedly of the universality of divine love and righteousness. The church, it is true, has not always been true to this, and in a grim despair has made its doctrines narrow, but some of the early belief can always be traced in them...
...Since the recent Harvard-Pennsylvania football game, the newspaper criticisms of decisions rendered by the umpire and referee have induced a popular belief that the University of Pennsylvania is unwilling to accept the result of the game without protests and explanations. It happens, also, that charges of unfairness, purporting to emanate from Harvard, have been preferred publicly against Pennsylvania as respects the playing of Brooke upon her team...