Word: belief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conservative force is an aid to progress Science and religion, he said, sprang originally from the same sources in human nature, the desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief in an eternal source of energy and life, reverence for the past all tend to strengthen one's faith in an ideal which makes rational moral action attractive...
...gave reason to believe that they can respond fully in a crisis and put more fierceness into their work than they have exhibited at any time before. Even though the final game will be played so soon, the power shown by the team yesterday was enough to encourage the belief that the team has the ability and the spirit to bring its work to a successful issue...
...standard of the eastern school teams, as organized football was only just beginning in his university. There is a difference of testimony and of opinion as to whether the games during his freshman year constituted representation of the university; but the Athletic Committee ruled him out, in the belief that he had had his four years within the spirit and intention of the four years' rule. It is unlikely that he will be restored to the team for the Yale game...
...proper to add that the plan of incorporation about to be considered was recommended in the confident belief that, for all practical purposes, the honorary obligation imposed upon the stockholders and directors would be fully as effective as any legal obligation. JAMES BARR AMES...
During the recent eclipse of the moon Professor Pickering of the Astronomical Observatory ascertained that the bright spot around the Linne crater on the surface of the moon had increased considerably during the eclipse when deprived of the heat of the sun. Professor Pickering is inclined to the belief that this was caused by a light deposit of hoar frost. The observations bore him out, showing by the most accurate kind of micrometic measurements that the spot had increased during the time the moon was obscured. That the spot is a deposit of hoar frost and not light reflected from...