Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance successfully refutes the arguments of those die hards who persist in the belief that there are never any pretty girls at Radcliffe. Many will appear at Brattle Hall this week helping to beautify a production that might have been merely amusing without them
This compromise with purity enables various of the unfaithful to get a little exercise and breathe the fresh air of nature for a few hours each Sunday and many are thankful for the tortuosity of belief which allows it. One factor still remains in the situation, however, to plague the happiness of the men who entered into this agreement with the Almighty. Does the Deity who frowns upon the playing of Sunday tennis except between 2 and 6 o'clock recognize the validity of daylight saving time? In the light of Einsteinian ideas of space-time, one hesitates...
...that the patrol boat was part of the U. S. Customs Enforcement Service (not Coast Guard). Mr. Fish filed a protest at Washington against the boarding, the swaggering display of firearms, the "threatening and profane" language before Mrs. Fish and the boys. With yachtsmen fuming, pleasure-boat builders professed belief that the Government was threatening their business. President William Hartman Woodin of American Car and Foundry Co. - a Wet Republican who supported Alfred Emanuel Smith for President - called for united protest, thus: "Certainly the sport of boating cannot be safe if the lives and property of boat owners are subject...
Hebrew and Christian monotheism, giving personal entity to God, did likewise to Satan. To Catholics, the Devil still stands shockingly silhouetted against Hell's background. For many Protestants, he has been rationalized or ridiculed out of existence. Last week, however, since belief is the life of god or devil, it appeared that the Devil still lives among Protestants...
...Betts (Northwestern University) wondered just how many people did believe in a real Devil. Not Catholics, because they must believe, but how about the ramified Protestants? Did most Protestant ministers believe or deny the Devil's existence? Professor Betts sent out a questionnaire, covering several other elements of belief while he was about it. Last week, he published the answers.* At anonymous random he asked 56 questions of 500 ministers, 200 theological students. Some of the questions: DO YOU BELIEVE that God exists? [Only on this question did all agree.] That the devil exists as an actual being? That...