Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That when there is reasonable cause for belief that a British vessel has committed or is committing offences against the laws of the U. S., it may be seized by U. S. authorities anywhere within an hour's sailing distance from the shore (an hour's sailing distance for the vessel transporting liquor to shore) and brought to the U. S. for adjudication...
...quite at liberty to publish this letter if you wish. I cannot understand how Dr. Lawrence, the Bishop of Massachusetts, can have said that ... I had come to the conclusion 'that there is no essential connection between the belief in the Virgin birth and a belief in the incarnation. . . . The fact of the virginal conception of Christ was no sooner heard than it was welcomed by the Church and taken up into its creed. It has seemed to all successive generations that the belief in the incarnation was so congruous with belief in the Virgin birth that the former...
...remember rushing to chapel in the cold of early Winter-mornings, sleepy, reluctant and with much trust to a long overcoat; but not all of them can remember that they profited largely from the performance of that stern duty. At the time they tried to agree with the prevailing belief, that anything painful was virtuous, but not all of them succeeding in doing it, and such as didn't still have their original doubts N. Y. Times
...which they claim is the substance responsible for the growth of cancer cells. When palmitin was added to the intestinal contents of normal persons and the mixture incubated, another acid was obtained-a saturated dicarbon acid- which they state had specific powers in dissolving cancer cells. It is the belief of the Viennese investigators that in the presence of added factors such as local irritation, from bruises, ulceration, burning or similar causes, the chemical substances mentioned have the power of encouraging or preventing the growth of cancer. They hope to extend their studies by producing cancer experimentally with...
While production is marking time, belief grows that the safest clue as to future business conditions is to be found in the money market. January is usually a month of "easier money" and this year proves no exception. Funds released from the heavy borrowings for the holiday trade and year- end settlements are seeking investment. Money rates have been somewhat weak and symptoms of a rise in bond prices ?a good sign of lowering interest rates ?have been apparent. Still the stream of gold imports flows into our Federal Reserve banking system, whose ratios are at record levels...