Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...housewife's prejudice against beet sugar, her belief that it is inferior to cane, was admitted by Senator Smoot. He narrated: "Once I took a sack of beet sugar to my wife who rejected it, saying she did not like to cook with beet sugar...
Contrary to popular belief, "Hawaiian music" is not a pure racial product. Natives invented the rhythm, foreigners the melodies. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin, taken to the islands by early settlers and now manufactured, chiefly in California, for export to Hawaii...
...conference was designed to make the layman articulate in church affairs, was founded on the belief that "there is much to be gained in the realm of religious progress by free discussion among religious leaders of all denominations of the common problems that confront them. The perils that face Christianity have no regard for denominational lines. The problems that most vitally confront Christians are nonsectarian...
...Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have a belief in the Lord Jesus, the repentance of sin, and the what-shall-I-do-to-be-saved...
...General Convention of Christian Churches in a union whose leadership will total about 1,080,000 souls. To their proposal Dr. Warren H. Denison of Dayton, executive secretary of the General Christian Convention, who attended the Congregational council as corresponding member, gave hearty approbation. Amid cheers, he expressed belief that the body he represented would approve the merger at its meeting in Piqua, Ohio, in October. If it is completed, the consolidation will be the first ever entered into in the U. S. between two distinct and previously unconnected sects...