Word: belief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cent of the Freshmen had organic heart disease, while 4.6 per cent of them presented hearts which we felt required a certain amount of supervision. These figures correspond closely to our findings in the past. Again we found a considerably larger number of students who were laboring under the belief that they had heart trouble, but who presented sound hearts, than we did students who had a damaged heart without knowing it. This emphasizes an opinion which has been expressed before, namely, that perhaps the most important result from the physical examination of Freshmen is the ability to assure these...
...exhibitors will at this time give brief descriptions and demonstrations of apparatus. Two programs, one on experimental psychology, and the other on intelligence tests will occupy the remainder of the afternoon Mr. A. A. Roback of the University will give a short discussion of the "Psychology of Belief...
...friends, the radicals, are organized and working to the best of their ability; the only sane thing to be done, then, is for the rest of us--stodgy old fools--who still cling to the belief that before you tear down you must be ready to build up once more--to organize as well, and thereby set a few back-fires...
...letter ends with an exhortation to the sponsors of the meeting to come forth and declare their belief that "Social and economic theories now in practice in Russia are in any sense applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." We are sorry to disappoint, but none of us can make such a statement. We vary in our opinions from those who believe the work the Soviets are doing in Russia is at least an improvement over the age-long terrorism of the Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods...
...Senators come to some compromise before the session of Congress closed?" was the next question put to Mr. Crocker. "It is my belief," he continued, "that the two opposing arrays of Senators were bound to fight the matter out to some extent, but only to such detail that it would be possible to make some compromise. However, they proceeded further and further until steps toward compromise were impossible in the tangle in which they had enmeshed themselves. The close of the session was upon them. When Senator Hitchcock had plunged his side into such difficulty that he wished...